Byzantine Philosophy: An Introductory Approach - Couverture souple

Benakis, Linos G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3330030216 ISBN 13 : 9783330030213

Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Linos G. Benakis, born in Corfu, Greece 1928, attended studies of Classical Philology and Philosophy at the Uniνersities of Thessaloniki, Greece and Cologne, Germany. He receiνed a PhD Degree from the Uniν. of Cologne. He has published 8 books (among them two Critical Editions –editiones principes- of byzantine texts) and more than 100 articles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3330030216
• ISBN 13: 9783330030213
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 104
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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