The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate NHC I.5 A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics

Contents
	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
	Introduction
		1 The Structure of the Present Study
		2 Who Were the Valentinians?
		3 The Myth in TriTrac and the Ethics in Storytelling
		4 Previous Research on TriTrac and the Historical Setting of the Text
		5 Early Christian Ethics and the Bad Reputation of Determinism
		6 Notes on Translation and Transcription
	Part 1
Theoretical Framework for Ethics
		Chapter 1 The Ontological and Epistemological Foundations
for Ethics
			1 Knowledge in TriTrac and Ancient Epistemology
			2 Imitations, Likenesses, and Images: the Ontology of TriTrac and the
Question of Logos
			3 Remembering (and) the Nature of Virtue
			4 The Individual and the Collective
			5 Mixing and Blending, Truth and Falsehood
			6 Conclusion: Ontology, Epistemology, and Ethics
		Chapter 2
Emotions, Demons, and Moral Ability
			1 Emotions and Cognitive Theory in Ancient Thought
			2 Emotions and the Creation Narrative
			3 The Logos’ First Movement and Ancient Cognitive Theory
			4 Good Emotions
			5 Negative Passions as “Mixed” Heavenly Powers and Their Influence
on Humans
			6 Apatheia, Therapeia, and Eleutheria
			7 Femaleness and the Sickness of Emotions
			8 Conclusion
		Chapter 3 Free Will and the Configuration of the
Human Mind
			1 Will and Ethics in Ancient Thought
			2 Christian Free Will, the Configuration of God, and the Creation of
the Cosmos
			3 Free Will and Moral Accountability in TriTrac
				3.1 A Few Notes on Terminology
				3.2 Will and the Creation Story
				3.3 The Creation Story in Light of Other Christian Interpretations of the
Will of God
				3.4 Self-Determination: Absence of Impressions and Passions
				3.5 Proairesis, Assent, and Opinion in Stoicism and TriTrac
				3.6 A Summary Regarding the Nature of Choice in TriTrac
			4 TriTrac’s Anthropology in Context: Origen’s Christian Opponents
	Part 2
Ethics in Practice
		Chapter 4
Natural Human Categories and Moral Progress
			1 The Three Classes of Humans in TriTrac
			2 The Pedagogical Purpose of the Logos’ Organization and the
Composition of Humans
			3 Three Categories of Humans According to TriTrac’s Epistemology
and Theory of Passions
			4 Restricted Choice in Practice
			5 Fixed, Fluid, or in Flux? The Advantages of a Fixed Anthropology
			6 Conclusions
		Chapter 5 School or Church? Teaching, Learning, and the
Community Structure
			1 On the Community Structure behind TriTrac in Light of the
Term “Church”
			2 The Cosmos as a “School” in TriTrac and Its Early Christian Context
			3 The “School of Conduct” in the Pleroma and the Gaining of Form
			4 The Cosmic School: an Imperfect Reflection of the Heavens
			5 Silent and Oral Instruction: Formation, Baptism, and Education
			6 The Duty of the Pneumatic Moral Expert and the Formation of
Psychic Christians
			7 The Category of the ‘School of Valentinus’ in Early Christian
Scholarship
			8 Conclusions: the Dual Structure of the Community behind TriTrac
		Chapter 6 Honor and Attitudes toward Social and Political
Involvement
			1 TriTrac and Early Christian Attitudes toward Involvement in
Society
			2 Cosmogony as Political Commentary
			3 The Pursuit of Honor
			4 Psychic Humans and Their Political Involvement
			5 Conclusion: the Character of Psychic Christians and Attitudes
toward Social and Ecclesiastical Involvement
	Part 3
Conclusions and Implications
		Chapter 7 Summary: the Nature of Early Christian
Determinism
			1 TriTrac’s Alexandrian Context
	Appendix Implications and Suggestions for Further Studies
	Bibliography
		Ancient Authors and Texts
		Secondary Literature
	Index of Modern Names
	Index of Ancient Sources
	Index of Subjects