Byzantine philosophy
Subtitle: an introductory approach
By: Linos G. Benakis
Publisher: LAP, Lambert Academic Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Saarbrücken
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9783330030213
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Philosophy
Description: "In Byzantium from the ninth century through to the fifteenth century, philosophy as a discipline remained the science of fundamental truths concerning human beings and the world. Philosophy, the “wisdom from without” was invariably contrasted with the "philosophy from within” namely theology. The view that philosophy is “the handmaiden of theology” which the Greek Church Fathers derived from Philo and the Alexandrian school of theology, was not the dominant position in Byzantium as it was in the West; philosophy, and logic in particular, was never treated as a mere background to, or tool of theology. By the same token, theology in Byzantium never developed into a systematic method of dialectical inquiry into Christian truths, or a science. Thus the initial distinction between philosophy and theology remained intact."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Byzantine philosophy; title: Philosophy and theology in Byzantium; title: The patristic heritage and the Byzantine philosophy; title: The theoretical and practical autonomy of philosophy as a discipline in Byzantium; title: Latin literature in Byzanz. The meeting point of two cultures; title: Byzantine interest in the philosophy of nature; title: Epilogue : current research in Byzantine philosophy; title: Questioning ... Linos Benakis / (by Christis Terezis); title: Preface to the new series "Commentaria in Aristotelem Byzantina"; title: Commentaries and commentators on the logical works of Aristotle in Byzantium; title: Commentaries and commentators on the works of Aristotle (except the logical ones) in Byzantium.