Annotation
A new course with Michail Theodosiadis aims at a basic acquaintance with the fundamental but little-known philosophical currents in the Greek world of late Byzantium and after the fall of Constantinople to the revolution of 1821. Attention will be paid to the history of Greek philosophy, the relationship of Greek thinkers to Western thought, and the influence of Greek diaspora on the formation of Western thought, i.e., the specifics of Byzantine philosophy or the influence of Byzantine intellectual emigration on the formation of Renaissance philosophy, and the changes that Greek thought has undergone from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. The goal of the course is to understand the special features of Greek (Byzantine and post-Byzantine) thought in the context of European intellectual history.
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Main topics
• Byzantine philosophy: basic problems (reception of antiquity, anthropology)
• Early sources of Byzantine philosophical-theological thought (Nemesios of Emesa, Maximos the Confessor, Dionysius the Areopagite, John of Damascus).
• Byzantine humanism of the 9th – 10th century (Fotios, Arethas)
• 11th – 12th century (Psellos, Italos, Nicholas of Methone)
• 13th century: (Blemmydes, Lascaris, Planudes, and Pachymeres)
• Mysticism (Symeon New Theologian, Niketas Stethates, Palamas).
• 14th – 15th century (Metochites, Chumnos, Pletho)
• Translations of Latin philosophy and Byzantine philosophy in the West (Italy, France, England).
• Greek philosophy from the fall of Byzantium to the revolution of 1821: basic problems and figures, philosophical trends (neo-Hellenism, enlightenment).
• Theophilos Korydaleus, Adamantios Korais, Evgenios Voulgaris, Iosepos Misiodax, Athanasios Psalidas.
Requirements: 1. Active participation in lessons 75%. 2. colloquium and essay or presentation in the course of some of the selected topic.