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Author: Κατερίνα Ιεροδιακόνου
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0199246130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeing regarded either as mere scholars or as primarily religious thinkers, Byzantine philosophers, for the most part, have not been studied on their own philosophical merit.
Author: Katerina Ierodiakonou
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0199269718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKByzantine philosophy is an almost unexplored field. Being regarded either as mere scholars or as primarily religious thinkers, Byzantine philosophers, for the most part, have not been studied on their own philosophical merit, and their works have hardly been scrutinized as works of philosophy.Thus, although distinguished scholars in the past have tried to reconstruct the intellectual life of the Byzantine period, there is no question that we still lack even the beginnings of a systematic understanding of the philosophy of the Byzantines.Byzantine Philosophy and its Ancient Sources is conceived as a concerted attempt in this direction. It examines the attitude the Byzantines took towards the ancient philosophical tradition and the specific ancient sources which they relied upon to form their theories. But did the Byzantines merelycopy ancient philosophers or interpret them the way they already had been interpreted in late antiquity? Does Byzantine philosophy as a whole lack a distinctive character which differentiates it from the previous periods in the history of philosophy?Eleven scholars, representing different disciplines from philosophy and history to classics and medieval studies, approach these questions by thoroughly investigating particular topics which give us some insight as to the directions in which we should look for possible answers. These topics range,in modern terms, from philosophy of language, theory of knowledge, and logic, to political philosophy, ethics, natural philosophy, and metaphysics. The philosophers whose works our contributors study belong to all periods from the beginnings of Byzantine culture in the fourth century to the demiseof the Byzantine Empire in the fifteenth century.
Author: Börje Bydén
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9788299912815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sergei Mariev
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-03-20
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 1501503634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKByzantine intellectuals not only had direct access to Neoplatonic sources in the original language but also, at times, showed a particular interest in them. During the Early Byzantine period Platonism significantly contributed to the development of Christian doctrines and, paradoxically, remained a rival world view that was perceived by many Christian thinkers as a serious threat to their own intellectual identity. This problematic relationship was to become even more complex during the following centuries. Byzantine authors made numerous attempts to harmonize Neoplatonic doctrines with Christianity as well as to criticize, refute and even condemn them. The papers assembled in this volume discuss a number of specific questions and concerns that drew the interest of Byzantine scholars in different periods towards Neoplatonic sources in an attempt to identify and explore the central issues in the reception of Neoplatonic texts during the Byzantine era. This is the first volume of the sub-series "Byzantinisches Archiv - Series Philosophica", which will be dedicated to the rapidly growing field of research in Byzantine philosophical texts.
Author: Ján Zozuľak
Publisher: Philosophy and Cultural Studies Revisited / Historisch-genetische Studien zur Philosophie und Kulturgeschichte
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783631748572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyses the development of Byzantine thought, defines the contents and characteristics of Byzantine philosophy, the role of Greco-Roman world and the place of Christian thinkers. It describes the relationship between Byzantine philosophy and Greek Patristics as well as the Byzantine neptic thought.
Author: Sten Ebbesen
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780754658375
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSten Ebbesen has contributed many works in the field of ancient and medieval philosophy over many decades of dedicated research. His style is crisp and lucid and his philosophical penetration and exposition of often difficult concepts and issues is both clear and intellectually impressive. Ashgate is proud to present this three volume set of his collected essays, all of them thoroughly revised and updated. Each volume is thematically arranged.Volume One: Greek-Latin Philosophical Interaction explores issues of relevance to the history of logic and semantics, and in particular connections and/or differences between Greek and Latin theory and scholarly procedures, with special emphasis on late antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Author: Alexandre M. Roberts
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2020-06-16
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0520343492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat happened to ancient Greek thought after Antiquity? What impact did Abrahamic religions have on medieval Byzantine and Islamic scholars who adapted and reinvigorated this ancient philosophical heritage? Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch tackles these questions by examining the work of the eleventh-century Christian theologian Abdallah ibn al-Fadl, who undertook an ambitious program of translating Greek texts, ancient and contemporary, into Arabic. Poised between the Byzantine Empire that controlled his home city of Antioch and the Arabic-speaking cultural universe of Syria-Palestine, Egypt, Aleppo, and Iraq, Ibn al-Fadl engaged intensely with both Greek and Arabic philosophy, science, and literary culture. Challenging the common narrative that treats Christian and Muslim scholars in almost total isolation from each other in the Middle Ages, Alexandre M. Roberts reveals a shared culture of robust intellectual curiosity in the service of tradition that has had a lasting role in Eurasian intellectual history.
Author: John Marenbon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 768
ISBN-13: 0190246979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Handbook shows the links between medieval and contemporary philosophy. Topic-based essays on all areas of philosophy explore this relationship and introduce the main themes of medieval philosophy. They are preceded by the fullest chronological survey now available of the different traditions: Latin and Greek, Islamic and Jewish.
Author: Sophia Xenophontos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-24
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1108833691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides the first authoritative study of the creative appropriation of Greek ethics by late antique and Byzantine authors.
Author: Basil Tatakis
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780872205635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWestern studies tend to view Byzantine philosophy either as a minor offshoot of western European thought, or a handy storehouse for documents and ideas until they are needed. A scholar of philosophy (Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki), Tatakis (1896-1996) finds the view limiting, pointing out that during the Roman period, few Greeks learned Latin but Romans were not considered educated without a founding in Greek, and that Byzantine Christianity has its own trajectory unconcerned with how it deviates from western orthodoxy.
