ŠTÚDIUM BYZANTSKEJ FILOZOFIE V EURÓPE A NA SLOVENSKU

• Authors: Zozuľak Ján

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Research of Byzantine philosophy in Europe and Slovakia

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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Increased interest in a systematic study of Byzantine philosophy study started to appear from the mid-20th century onward. The most influential figure that helped develop this area of research the most in its early formative years was V. Tatakis. Tatakis uncovered the great value of Byzantine civilization and became an inspiration for scholars who followed in his footsteps in France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Greece and elsewhere. The critical edition of Byzantine commentaries on Aristotle published during this time further supported a more complex scientific work in this field. Many unpublished philosophical texts from the Byzantine era wait their processing and publishing in a critical edition, which would make them available to be further examined, studied, and included in the corpus of Byzantine philosophy. The Byzantine thinkers created a cosmology that became foundational for the Byzantine anthropology. On the level of ontology, they introduced the term “person” (πρόσωπον), defined what later became an established terminology (in this field), and contributed to the philosophical interpretation of terms, such as essence (οὐσία), hypostasis (ὑπόστασις), nature (φύσις), energy (ἐνέργεια) and others. Byzantium had a significant impact on the territory of Great Moravia as well. By virtue of the writing, culture, and art that had been brought to our area by Constantine the Philosopher (Cyril) and Method, conditions for the development of culture in the Slavic environment were established.

Keywords

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BYZANTINOLOGY; BYZANTINE PHILOSOPHY; CYRIL; METHODIUS; GREAT MORAVIA; ROMAN EMPIRE; BYZANTINE EMPIRE

• Publisher: Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre
• Journal: Konštantínove listy
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3 - 11

Contributors

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Zozuľak Ján

• Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Faculty of Arts, Hodžova 1, 949 74 Nitra, Slovak Republic