Clement is sometimes accused of having underestimated the positive value of human pathé and of having overcharged and insufficiently clarified the aspect of the spiritual life of a Christian which is the exclusion of the passions and passionlessness. In my paper I would like to analyse the concept of eupatheia in Clement’s work (Protr. 115,1; Strom. V,7,3; VII,8,1; cf. VII,37,2) and present a proposal according to which this concept along with the author’s respect for the spiritual childhood might be the key to understand his positive attitude towards morally uncommitted human pathé.
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