Byzantine Philosophy : A Systematic Perspective /

Byzantine Philosophy : A Systematic Perspective /

The book is the result of thirty years of Georgi Kapriev's work in the field of Byzantine philosophy. Contrary to long-held opinions that no authentic philosophy existed in Byzantium, the fullness and complexity of this philosophical tradition are offered. The subject is its context and its mai...

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Main Author: Karpiev, Georgi (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; 138.

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part1 The Context
  • Introduction
  •  1 Byzantium and the Byzantine Commonwealth
  •  2 The Emergence of Byzantine Philosophy
  •  3 The Patristics
  •  4 Theology
  •  5 Philosophy
  •  6 Periodization of Byzantine Philosophical Culture
  •  1 Byzantium and the Byzantine commonwealth
  •  8 Rationality and Thirst for Knowledge
  •  9 Philosophy in Byzantium and Byzantine philosophy
  •  10 Conclusion
  • Part2 Main Topics and Concepts
  • 1 Teachings on the Energies
  •  1 The Teaching of Aristotle
  •  2 The Interpretation of the Theory of Energies by Martin Heidegger
  •  3 Hellenic Reception
  •  4 Beginning of the Christian Reception of the Doctrine of Energies
  •  5 The Doctrine of Energies in Christian Thinkers of the 4th Century
  •  6 Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite
  •  7 Maximus the Confessor
  •  8 John Damascene
  •  9 An Intermediate Balance
  •  10 The Doctrine of Energies and Western Philosophical Thought
  •  11 Photius of Constantinople
  •  12 Michael Psellus
  •  13 Nicetas of Maroneia
  •  14 George of Cyprus (Gregory II )
  •  15 Gregory Palamas
  •  16 Barlaam, Acindynus and Gregoras
  •  17 Prochorus Cydones
  •  18 The Doctrine of Energies in the Works of the next Palamite Generation
  •  19 Essential Energy and Accident
  •  20 The Lack of Correctly Formulated Logical Distinction between Essence and Energy
  •  21 George Scholarius and the Definition of the Distinction
  •  22 Perichoresis and Synergy
  •  23 Callistus Angelicudes: Essential Energy and Hypostasis
  •  24 Hexis-the Hypostasizing Factor
  • 2 The Principles of Being
  •  1 Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite
  •  2 Maximus the Confessor
  •  3 Metaphysics of the Concrete
  •  4 The Analogous Independence of Being
  •  5  Logos /Principle of Essence and Tropos /Mode of Existence
  •  6 Being-Well/Bad-Being-Eternal-Being
  •  7 The Co-Creator
  • 3 Nature and Hypostasis
  •  1 Nature/Essence
  •  2 Hypostasis
  •  3 Hypostasis and Person
  •  4 Relation and Synergy
  •  5 Individual
  • 4 The Human Being
  •  1 The logos of Man
  •  2 Image of God, Microcosm and Ancestral Sin
  •  3 The Psychosomatic Unity of the Human Being
  •  4 The Human Body
  •  5 The Soul
  • 5 Human Knowledge
  •  1 Rational Knowledge
  •  2 Experiential Knowledge
  • 6 Will and Freedom
  •  1 John Cassian's Doctrine of Freedom
  •  2 The Cappadocians
  •  3 Nemesius of Emesa
  •  4 Maximus the Confessor
  •  5 John Damascene
  •  6 Photius of Constantinople
  •  7 Michael Psellus
  •  8 Providence and Fortune in Historiography
  •  9 The Debate about Fate in the 15th Century
  •  10 Deification and Freedom according to Gregory Palamas
  •  11 Concluding Remarks
  • 7 Time, Aeon, Eternity
  •  1 Hellenic Tradition
  •  2 Basil the Great. The Cappadocians
  •  3 Maximus the Confessor
  •  4 Michael Psellus
  •  5 System of the Interaction of Structures
  •  6 Concluding Observations
  • 8 History and metaphysics
  •  1 Political Thought and Historiography
  •  2 Historicity as a Foundational Element of Byzantine Philosophy
  • Bibliography
  • Indices.