Byzantine philosophy and its ancient sources / edited by Katerina Ierodiakonou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ierodiakonou, Katerina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy--Byzantine Empire.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] : Clarendon Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Byzantine philosophy is an almost unexplored field. Being regarded either as mere scholars or as primarily religious thinkers, Byzantine philosophers, for the most part, have not been studied on their own philosophical merit, and their works have hardly been scrutinized as works of philosophy. Thus, although distinguished scholars in the past have tried to reconstruct the intellectual life of the Byzantine period, there is no question that we still lack even the beginnings of asystematic understanding of the philosophy of the Byzantines.Byzantine Philosophy and its Ancient Sources is conceived

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1. Greek-Latin Philosophical Interaction; 2. Basil of Caesarea on the Semantics of Proper Names; 3. The Justinianic Dialogue On Political Science and its Neoplatonic Sources; 4. John of Damascus on Human Action, the Will, and Human Freedom; 5. Syllogistic in the anon Heiberg; 6. Hellenic Philosophy in Byzantium and the Lonely Mission of Michael Psellos; 7. Psellos' Paraphrasis on Aristotle's De interpretatione; 8. 'To Every Argument There is a Counter-Argument': Theodore Metochites' Defence of Scepticism (Semeiosis 61)

9. The Anti-Logical Movement in the Fourteenth Century10. Byzantine Commentators on the Chaldaean Oracles: Psellos and Plethon; 11. Plethon and Scholarios on Aristotle; Epilogue: Current Research in Byzantine Philosophy; Index Locorum; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; S; T; Z; Index of Names; I. ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X; Z; II. MODERN; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-155429-4

1-4237-7460-4

OCLC:

814494370