Νέο βιβλίο του καθηγητού μας κ. Λίνου Μπενάκη

Με πολύ μεγάλη χαρά έχουμε την τιμή να σας παρουσιάσουμε το νέο βιβλίο του κ. Λίνου Μπενάκη «Βυζαντινή Φιλοσοφία Β» (εκδ. Παρουσία, Αθήνα 2013, 544 σελ).

Την εποχή των άκρων και των ακροτήτων, την εποχή της ισοπέδωσης των άξιων και των αξιών, την εποχή της κρίσης και της ακρισίας, έρχεται ξανά ο Δάσκαλός μας να μας θυμίσει ότι η κληρονομιά μας δύσκολα μπορεί να μετρηθεί με όρους φορολογικών νομοσχεδίων, αγορών κι επιτοκίων. Έρχεται ξανά όπως έκανε τότε, τον καιρό της απόλυτης σιωπής, να ανοίξει μια μόνο σελίδα Ιστορίας για μας θυμίσει ποιοι είμαστε και γιατί κανείς ποτέ δεν θα μπορέσει να ισοπεδώσει την ψυχή μας. Με απεριόριστο σεβασμό και εκτίμηση, Δάσκαλε, ευχαριστούμε.

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Byzantine Philosophy B  

by Linos G. Benakis

In his writings, Linos Benakis deals with subjects relating to ancient Greek, postclassical and Byzantine and Modern Greek philosophy. His main interests are in the last two of these periods and he has published reliable critical editions of works by Byzantine philosophers. In his research he employs the historical critical method, backed by scrupulous textual verification and examination of the content of other scholars' findings, arriving eventually at an "historical interpretation" of the problems, which meant reconstituting the problems in accordance with the structure of each philosopher's systematic thinking. Working on these methodological principles, he created a clearly defined research programme which involved restoring Byzantine philosophy as an actual corpus of texts (for which critical editions would have to be published or reissued) and also defining the particular philosophical character of the problems of that period. This approach opens the way to an objective evaluation of Byzantine philosophy in the context of the history of Greek philosophy and indeed in European philosophy generally.

G.A., in World Biographical Dictionary, VI.
Athens: Ekdotike Athenon, 1987.

Paperback, 544 pages

Published 2013 by Ed. Parousia
ISBN13 9789606652400

Linos G. Benakis

Author profile

born

in Korfu, Greece 

January 31, 1928

gender

male

genre

Philosophy, History

About this author

He studied Literature in the University of Thessaloniki (1946-1951), Classical Studies and Philosophy with a Scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (1957-1960) in the University of Cologne, from where he earned his doctorate. He taught in High Schools, while in 1963 started collaboration with the Centre for the Edition of Ancient Authors. In 1970 he worked in the Centre for the Research of Greek Philosophy of the Academy of Athens, of which he became director in 1973.
In 1982 he elected member of the council of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Philosophy, and president of the Byzantine Philosophy Committee in the same Society. He is responsible for the edition of the series "Byzantine Philosophers" and "Byzantine Commentaries on Aristotle" of the Academy of Athens. In 1984 he taught in the University of Princeton in USA and in 1987-88 in the University of Crete. He is member of many other scientific societies, editor of many conference proceedings, and was chairman in many conferences. In the decade of 1990 he was vice-president of the Ionian University in Corfu and founded the Group for the Study of Byzantine Philosophy in Greece. After 2000 he was again professor in the University of Crete and he published three corpus of his studies in Ancient, Byzantine and Neohellenic Philosophy. In 2008 in the series of "Byzantine Commentaries on Aristotle" in which he remains director and editor, he published the comments by Michael Psellos on Aristotle's Physics. From early in his life he was connected with friendship with great Modern Greek philosophers as were Basil Tatakis - of whom the work on Byzantine Philosophy he continued -, Evangellos Papanoutsos, Constantine Tsatsos, Ioannis Theodorakopoulos and Panagiotis Kanellopoulos.
In his research he employs the historical-critical method, backed by scrupulous textual verification and examination of the content of other scholars' findings, arriving eventually at a consistent interpretation of philosophical thought. This means that each philosopher's systematic thinking doesn't appear fragmentary, but is reconstructed in accordance with its internal coherence. His contribution in the interpretation and restoration of Byzantine philosophical texts is so effective that many younger scholars succeeded to approach more essentially the content of Greek philosophy and of European philosophy in general.

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