Philosophy as duty and its religious significance (i)
Philosophy as duty and its religious significance (i)

Summary/Abstract: There is a theological dimension in the philosophizing debt to Plato, which, properly guided by knowledge of the truth, access to the forms (ideas) land that make up the divine world more than any of the gods mythology because the forms had divine characteristics, namely eternity and immortality. Specifically in terms of Platonic doctrine about the soteriological function of philosophy, it should be noted that the process of cleansing the soul through philosophy is carried on two coordinates, namely the abscissa of morality on the one hand, and on the other hand, the reason’s ordinate. As a legacy of the essence of Judaism and Hellenism, Christian doctrine takes the category of “duty” as a central concept of his pragmatic moral oriented towards human salvation and becomes a special virtue. Christian virtue is the result of divine grace working together with spiritual powers of man, while the ancient virtue is a trait or a purely human power. The essence of Christian virtue does not rest, nor reason, nor sense, nor will, but includes soul one’s integrity: reason, affectivity and will. Definition of manual states that Christian virtue is continuous and constant activity, the source of divine grace which works with faithful endeavor, which he always fulfills God’s will, the only truth that makes man free. Example of perfect union of wisdom and salvation was St. Justin Martyr and Philosopher.

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