Nicholas of Methone, Reader of Proclus in Byzantium : Context and Legacy /

Nicholas of Methone, Reader of Proclus in Byzantium : Context and Legacy /

This volume is the first complete study of the 12th-century CE Byzantine philosopher Nicholas of Methone, offering a critical examination of a key moment in 11th-12th-century Byzantine philosophy. Although traditionally regarded as a polemical commentator on the late Neoplatonist Proclus, this volum...

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Other Authors: Calma, Dragos (Editor), Greig, Jonathan (Editor), Robinson, Joshua (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: History of Metaphysics: Ancient, Medieval, Modern ; 7.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2025

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Philosophy.

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Call Number: Z6207.G7 DE3

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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • Jonathan Greig and Dragos Calma
  • Part 1 Nicholas of Methone and His Contemporary Intellectual Context
  • 2 Ioanne Petritsi between Proclus and Nicholas of Methone
  • István Perczel with the contribution of Levan Gigineishvili
  • 3 Nicholas of Methone and Ioane Petritsi on Intellect
  • Lela Alexidze
  • 4 Different Understandings of Proclus' First Principle(s) in Nicholas of Methone and Ioanne Petritsi
  • Levan Gigineishvili
  • 5 Nicholas of Methone against Eustratios of Nicaea? On Proclus' Presence in the Commentary on the Posterior Analytics II
  • Michele Trizio
  • Part 2 The Refutation and Nicholas' Other Works
  • 6 Standards of Argument in Nicholas of Methone and Proclus: Comparing the Elementatio theologica with Nicholas' Attempts to Disarm It
  • Jan Opsomer
  • 7 A Relativistic Approach to Proclus: Nicholas of Methone's Critique of Elements of Theology § 67-74 (on Parts and Wholes)
  • Arthur Oosthout
  • 8 Nicholas of Methone on Divine Ideas: Between Proclus and the Early Byzantines
  • Jonathan Greig
  • 9 The Motion of the Fertile One in Nicholas of Methone and Earlier Sources
  • Joshua M. Robinson
  • 10 Ontological Foundations and Methodological Applications of Analogy in Nicholas of Methone: An Example of Realism
  • Christos Terezis and Lydia Petridou
  • 11 12th-Century Philosophers and the Filioque: The Case of Nicholas of Methone's Corpus on the Procession of the Holy Spirit
  • Alessandra Bucossi
  • 12 Reconsidering Nicholas of Methone's Corpus on the Procession of the Holy Spirit
  • Carmelo Nicolò Benvenuto
  • Part 3 Nicholas of Methone's Reception and Legacy
  • 13 The Discussion on Participation from Nicholas of Methone to Palamas and His Opponents
  • The Scholia on Proclus' Elementatio Theologica in Marcianus gr. 512
  • Carlos Steel
  • 14 Proclus (and Nicholas of Methone) in the Hesychast Controversy
  • Börje Bydén
  • 15 Marsilio Ficino and Nicholas of Methone on Platonic Theology
  • Stephen Gersh
  • Index.