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23Proclus as a source for Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s arguments concerning emanatio and creatio ex nihiloIn Danielle A. Layne & David D. Butorac (eds.), Proclus and his Legacy, De Gruyter. pp. 353-363. 2016.Pico’s view on emanationism is ambiguous. Moreover, his position viz. emanation seems to change at times. He made his emanationism more elaborate and complex by incorporating in it Neoplatonic ideas and the Kabbalistic hierarchy. He attempted a reconciliation of emanatio and creatio ex nihilo, as certain Christian Neoplatonists like Augustine did before, but Pico’s main intention was not the defense of the Christian dogma. To illustrate this point, I note that he did not hesitate to interpret e…Read more
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534“Exemplary deaths in the Peloponnese: Plutarch’s study of death and its revision by Georgius Trapezuntius Cretensis»Honouring the Dead in the Peloponesse, Proceedings of the Conference Held at Sparta 23-26 April 2009. 2011.This article examines the philosophical position of Plutarch on death through the way that he faces the deaths of prominent and non-prominent Lacedaemonians. Then, an analysis of Plutarch's positions by Georgius Trapezuntius in the Renaissance period is attempted, so as to illustrate the degree and the method of using the classical philosophical thought in the Renaissance.
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520- “«We engaged a Master of Philosophy like other Teachers»: John and Theodosius Zygomalas and some Philosophical Discussions in the Second Half of the 16th century”,In Stavros Perentides & Georgios Steiris (eds.), - “«We engaged a Master of PhilIoannnes et Theodosios Zygomalas, Patriarchatus – Institutiones – Codices,”, Daedalus. 2009.This article attempts to provide a summary of the European and Greek philosophy of the 16th century, so that the contribution of the two Zygomalas to philosophical education can be evaluated along with the philosophical preferences of their cycle. Contributions of this study would be considered the restoration of incorrect positions in the bibliography concerning the doctor-philosopher Leonardo Mindonios and the analysis of the philosophical corpus in Istanbul in the second half of the 16th cent…Read more
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938Science at the Service of Philosophical Dispute: George of Trebizond on NaturePhilotheos 12 (1): 103-119. 2012.Georgius Trapezuntius Cretensis (or George of Trebizond) (1396-1472), an eminent humanist scholar who immigrated to Italy from Crete, is well appreciated for his translations, commentaries and treatises on philosophy, rhetoric and science. While there is a good deal of scholarship on Byzantine scholars in the Italian Renaissance, the topic of their contribution to mathematics and science in general has not to date been thoroughly addressed. This paper purports to fill this lacuna. On the basis o…Read more
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646Isidore of Seville and al- Fārābi on Animals: Ontology and EthicsIn Evangelos D. Protopapadakis (ed.), Animal Ethics: Past and Present Perspectives, Logos Verlag. 2012.In this article the treatment of animals by the early Christian and Arabic philosophy has been developed, focusing mainly on the work of Isidore of Seville and Al-Farabi. The contribution of this study is to highlight the insufficiently considered aspects of the ontology of animals and of their endorsement as moral "subjects" in both Latin and Arabic literature up to our days.
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3753Al-Farabi’s ecumenical state and its modern connotationsSkepsis: A Journal for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research 253-261. 2012.al-Fārābi was well aware that ecumenism can easily convert to tyranny if a certain city–state attempts to impose its laws outside its territory. State legislation depends on specific cultural and historical factors which deprives it from being universal because culture and history could not unite different nations in an ecumenical state. Legislation has to be built on universal premises, e.g. on philosophy, so as to serve the needs of a global state. Philosophy is the bond which unites humans an…Read more
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735Anthropologie, Religion und Politik in der praktischen Philosophie al-Fārābīs und in den politischen Traktaten MachiavellisIn M. Stork V. Pantazis (ed.), Ommasin allois, Festschrift für Professor Ioannis E. Theodoropoulos zum 65. Geburtstag, Oldib Verlag. pp. 151-189. 2014.Die ethische und politische Philosophie al-Fārābīs beruht auf einer philosophischen Anthropologie, die die Menschen als von Natur aus als ungleich betrachtet und der Natur eine fundamentale Bedeutung zuschreibt. Die Natur stattet nur wenige Menschen mit besonderen Fähigkeiten aus, sodass die Verwirklichung der höheren theoretischen, geistigen, moralischen Tugend und der praktischen Kunst nur jene betrifft, die von der Natur dafür ausersehen wurden. Die Anthropologie ist darüber hinaus auch ein w…Read more
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22Platonic and Aristotelian Mathematics in Georgius’ Trapezuntius Comparatio Philosophorum Platonis et AristotelisSkepsis: A Journal for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research (iv): 112-124. 2012.Georgius Trapezuntius Cretensis (1395-1472), an eminent humanist scholar who immigrated to Italy from Crete, is well appreciated for his treatises on philosophy and rhetoric, his commentary on Ptolemy’s Almagest (Syntaxis Mathematica) and his translations of Plato, Aristotle as well as of some Christian fathers. Trapezuntius’ works, although heavily criticized at times, contributed to Italian and Northern Renaissance. On the basis of major evidence, we will attempt in this paper to show the way …Read more
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507George of Trebizond’s contribution in the development of cosmology during the RenaissanceIn Michael Andrianakes (ed.), Acta of the IX International Cretological Congress, (Chanea, 1-8 Octomber 2006), v.B1, Byzantine and Postbyzantine Period, Philological Society Chrysostomus. pp. 185-202. 2010.In this article, the cosmological positions of George of Trebizond are regrouped and an attempt to evaluate his offer to the philosophy of nature in the Renaissance is presented. George of Trepizond dedicated a huge part of his work to the philosophical and scientific study of the world; he also renewed the way the Greek letters are studied and used.
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665The Problem of Modern Greek Identity: from the Εcumene to the Nation-StateCambridge Scholars Press. 2016.The question of Modern Greek identity is certainly timely. The political events of the previous years have once more brought up such questions as: What does it actually mean to be a Greek today? What is Modern Greece, apart from and beyond the bulk of information that one would find in an encyclopaedia and the established stereotypes? This volume delves into the timely nature of these questions and provides answers not by referring to often-cited classical Antiquity, nor by treating Greece as me…Read more
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501La perception et valorization de la philosophie arabe dans le Résumé de la Somme théologique de Saint Thomas d’Aquin de Georges Gennade Scholarios: les cas d’Avicenne et AverroèsIn G. Arabatzis (ed.), Marges de la Philosophie Byzantine, Institut Du Livre - A.kardamitsa. pp. 51-74. 2013.The article focuses on an unexamined so far aspect of byzantine philosophy, namely the influence of Arabic philosophy upon byzantine thinkers. Despite the vicinity of Byzantium and Arabic territories, the philosophical interactions were minimal. Scholarios claimed, in a dedicatory epistle to Constantine Paleologus (1405-1453), that he had studied the treatises of Avicenna, Averroes, and other Arab and Persian philosophers. He admitted that Averroes was beyond doubt the best commentator of Aristo…Read more
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52Byzantine Philosophers of the 15th Century on Identity and OthernessIn Georgios Steiris, Sotiris Mitralexis & George Arabatzis (eds.), The Problem of Modern Greek Identity: from the Εcumene to the Nation-State, Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 173-199. 2016.Those who work with topics related to Modern Greek identity usually start discussing these issues by quoting the famous Georgios Gemistos Pletho (c.1360-1454): we, over whom you rule and hold sway, are Hellenes by genos (γένος), as is witnessed by our language and ancestral education. Although Woodhouse thought of Pletho as the last of the Hellenes, others prefer to denounce him the last of the Byzantines and the first and foremost Modern Greek. During the 14th and 15th centuries, a number of in…Read more
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468Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on AnaxagorasViator 45 (3): 363-375. 2014.Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) focuses on Anaxagoras (ca. 500-428 BC) because he considers him as a precursor of the the later Neoplatonic concept all things exist in all things in their own mode, which became the core of Pico’s metaphysics. Anaxagoras’s philosophy permits Pico to establish his doctrine that all things share a portion of God within them, in their own way. Pico rejects the fixed position of man in the ontological hierarchy. Man has the chance to become everything. Pico…Read more
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864Politique, Religion et Hérésie dans le dialogue anonyme protobyzantin Περί Πολιτικῆς Ἐπιστήμης et dans l’œuvre philosophique d’al-FārābīByzantinische Forschungen, Internationale Zeitschrift für Byzantinistik 121-141. 2013.In this article the impact of the dialogue Peri Politikis Epistimis in the political philosophy of the first Arab philosophers is highlighted and analyzed. This dialogue, whose importance was pointed out relatively recently in the relevant literature, contains material that guides the researcher to understand in a different way the intake not only of the classical but also of the early Byzantine political philosophy by Al-Farabi. The text focuses on the handling of the relationship between polit…Read more
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30«Georgius Trapezuntius Cretensis on Death»Zbornik 11 189-202. 2009.In this article the views of George of Trebizond on death are regrouped and presented as they were expressed in various of his works over a long period. From their study, their dependence of classical Greek philosophy is demonstrated and his overall turn from Neo-Platonism to Aristotelianism is also adequately proved.
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40Guest Editors' NoteForum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 20 (2): 119-120. 2015.This special volume of Forum Philosophicum, entitled “Sharing in the Logos: Philosophical Readings of Maximus the Confessor,” makes available five papers selected from those presented at the conference “Maximus the Confessor as a European Philosopher,” held at the Freie Universität, Berlin, from the 26th to the 28th of September, 2014. We are happy to open up our journal to the contributions of a number of scholars who all share a specific methodological stance when it comes to reading Patristic…Read more
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28Machiavelli’s appreciation of Greek Antiquity and the ideal of RenaissanceIn Alexander Lee, Pit Péporté & Harry Schnitker (eds.), Renaissance? Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity in Europe, c.1300 - c.1550, Brill. pp. 81-94. 2010.In this article Machiavelli's attitude towards Greek antiquity and philosophy is presented and interpreted, in particular his preference to Sparta and his critical attitude towards Athens and also the way of perception on behalf of him for the general political influence of classical literature and philosophy. Finally, the special way he comprehends Renaissance, as this is expressed in Machiavelli’s philosophy of history, is presented.