Είναι η φιλοσοφία στο Βυζάντιο αντιβυζαντινή;
Part of : Δευκαλίων : περιοδική έκδοση για τη φιλοσοφική έρευνα και κριτική ; Vol.28, No.2, 2011, pages 50-74
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Is philosophy in Byzantium anti-Byzantine?
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This article engages critically with a contribution by Niketas Siniossoglou, published in the previous issue of Deucalion (N. Siniossoglou, “From the rectitude of names” to the «rectitude of dogmas»: The problem with Byzantine philosophy), in which the author argues for the subservience of “Byzantine philosophy”, as currently conceived, to Christian theological establishment and claims that (unconditioned)philosophical discourse in Byzantium had a profoundly anti-Byzantine character. The present article aims at providing a more nuanced assessment of Byzantine philosophical activity, stressing the more complex interaction of Hellenic philosophical heritage and Christian thought in Byzantium and arguing for the impossibility to reduce Byzantine philosophy to a single concept or tradition (be it Christian byzantine or anti-Byzantine). It thus suggests an approach which dismisses any claims to a Unitarian synthesis of philosophy in Byzantium and proposes to examine Byzantine philosophical activity within its changing historical context, according to its twofold nature (philosophy as Christian ascetic way of life and as part of Hellenic paideia) and to its inconclusive development
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Βυζάντιο
