name: Linos G. Benakis
birth_date: 1928-01-31 00:00:00
death_date: 2022-10-12 00:00:00
genres: Religion, Philosophy, History
avg_rating: 4.62
ratings_count: 13
about: He studied Literature in the University of Thessaloniki (1946-1951), Classical Studies and Philosophy with a Scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (1957-1960) in the University of Cologne, from where he earned his doctorate. He taught in High Schools, while in 1963 started collaboration with the Centre for the Edition of Ancient Authors. In 1970 he worked in the Centre for the Research of Greek Philosophy of the Academy of Athens, of which he became director in 1973.In 1982 he was elected member of the council of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Philosophy, and president of the Byzantine Philosophy Committee in the same Society. He was responsible for the edition of the series "Byzantine Philosophers" a He studied Literature in the University of Thessaloniki (1946-1951), Classical Studies and Philosophy with a Scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (1957-1960) in the University of Cologne, from where he earned his doctorate. He taught in High Schools, while in 1963 started collaboration with the Centre for the Edition of Ancient Authors. In 1970 he worked in the Centre for the Research of Greek Philosophy of the Academy of Athens, of which he became director in 1973.In 1982 he was elected member of the council of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Philosophy, and president of the Byzantine Philosophy Committee in the same Society. He was responsible for the edition of the series "Byzantine Philosophers" and "Byzantine Commentaries on Aristotle" of the Academy of Athens. In 1984 he taught in the University of Princeton in USA and in 1987-88 in the University of Crete. He was member of many other scientific societies, editor of many conference proceedings, and was chairman in many conferences. In the decade of 1990 he was vice-president of the Ionian University in Corfu and founded the Group for the Study of Byzantine Philosophy in Greece. After 2000 he was again professor in the University of Crete and he published three corpus of his studies in Ancient, Byzantine and Neohellenic Philosophy. In 2008 in the series of "Byzantine Commentaries on Aristotle" in which he remains director and editor, he published the comments by Michael Psellos on Aristotle's Physics. From early in his life he was connected with friendship with great Modern Greek philosophers as were Basil Tatakis - of whom the work on Byzantine Philosophy he continued -, Evangellos Papanoutsos, Constantine Tsatsos, Ioannis Theodorakopoulos and Panagiotis Kanellopoulos. In his research he employed the historical-critical method, backed by scrupulous textual verification and examination of the content of other scholars' findings, arriving eventually at a consistent interpretation of philosophical thought. This means that each philosopher's systematic thinking doesn't appear fragmentary, but is reconstructed in accordance with its internal coherence. His contribution in the interpretation and restoration of Byzantine philosophical texts was so effective that many younger scholars succeeded to approach more essentially the content of Greek philosophy and of European philosophy in general. ...more