Nómos émpsychos. El tratado "De Iosepho" de Filón de Alejandría / Nómos émpsychos. The Treatise "De Iosepho" by Philo of Alexandria

Abstract

Analysis of a capital text, De Iosepho (On Joseph), to understand the political philosophy of Philo of Alexandria. This autor, according to its religious creed (judaism) and its philosophy affinities (pythagoreanism, heracliteanism, platonism, aristotelianism, stoicism, pyrrhonism and neoplatonism), praises the monarchical state (the Theocracy of the Pentateuch would be the model, he hellenistic monarchies the copy), that reinterprets in terms of ethnos, religion and culture. The morarch should embody or to be the «Living Law» (Nomos Empsychos).