George Zografidis's research while affiliated with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and other places
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Publications (58)
Between the eighth and ninth centuries, the production of original philosophical and scientific treatises became dominant with respect to the study of Greek philosophical and scientific literature in Arabic translation. This is due to the contribution of the translators and al-Kindī’s thought, as well as to the experience of the teachers in the ten...
Best known for his theological works, the early fourteenth-century philosopher Carmelite Guido Terreni demonstrated considerable independence and originality in his philosophical views. A follower of Godfrey of Fontaines and Aquinas, his defense of Aristotelian positions sometimes took original turns, and he departed from Aristotle in important res...
Byzantine aesthetics comprises views on traditional aesthetic concepts (beauty, light) and problems (values and properties) as well as discussions relevant to art theory (the status of the work of art, the functions of art, the beholder). It does not form a coherent system and it has to be reconstructed through numerous texts of different genres (p...
Theologian, philosopher, astronomer, and historian of the Palaiologan Renaissance called “polyhistor” for his great erudition. He was a conservative, anti-Latin Orthodox theologian who indulged in polemics against Gregory Palamas. Following his mentor Theodore Metochites, he was a Platonist with highly Skeptical tendencies, which he combined with P...
In what follows, the expressions “Alexandrian philosophy” and “Alexandrian philosophers” will refer to the School of Ammonius son of Hermias (around 470 to after 517), his students and their students, and Simplicius (c. 490–560), who was also known to the Arabic authors.
Ethics in Byzantium was not a systematic philosophical discipline, but an occasional response to particular problems posed in everyday life or in interpreting the Scripture. Ethical views on virtues and vices, evil and passions, the Good, the commandments and their observance, labor, marriage and family, sexual life, spiritual exercises, death, res...
George Pachymeres (1242–c. 1310) was a Byzantine philosopher and teacher, learned in many fields (polyhistor), and the leading historian and scholar of his time. A prolific writer and copyist of Greek philosophical texts, he was one of the most productive Byzantine commentators. He contributed significantly to the understanding of Aristotle’s philo...
Maximos Planoudes (1255–1305) was a Byzantine scholar and writer, an influential teacher, learned in many fields, a copyist and “editor” of numerous Greek texts, and a translator of Latin works. His efforts have enriched the manuscript tradition of a considerable part of Greek literary and scientific production. He was the most eminent scholar of h...
Nikephoros Blemmydes (1197–1269) was a Byzantine theologian and philosopher, of vast learning (polyhistor) and considerable influence. His major philosophical work is a twofold manual on logic and physics that reflects the interests and the status of the philosophical discussions in early thirteenth century Byzantium. In these Epitomes he exposes s...
“Modistae” is the name of a group of Parisian grammarians and philosophers who lived in the period between 1270 and 1300, the most important names being Martin of Dacia, Radulphus Brito, and Thomas of Erfurt. Their work on grammar and logic is characterized by the intention to situate these former liberal arts within the medieval system of sciences...
Before the publication of Newton’s Principia mathematica philosophiae naturalis (1689), Aristotle’s Physics was the most widely read and influential book of natural philosophy. After 1250, it constituted the core text of the discipline of natural philosophy and was, together with Aristotle’s other “natural books,” routinely studied at all European...
Preliminary issues. The study of early Byzantine philosophy raises certain preliminary issues that one needs to bear in mind from the start, for they concern the very definition of this field of scholarly research. It is only sixty years ago, when Basil Tatakis’ La philosophie byzantine (1949) appeared as a supplement in Emile Bréhier's Histoire de...
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... Box 2: Rationale of the indicators and scores set forth Indicators Here indicators alike questions are set based on the literature review (Davey, 2003;Swift, 2014), analysis of the research problem, conceptual framework and priori knowledge of the context. ...
... As a post-Copernican, Giordano believed that an infinite universe contained a multiplicity of worlds -or otherwise known as infinite cosmology. This line of thought not only applied to the spatial, but his fundamental anti-hierarchical thinking coupled with relativisation of values contextualised social, political, historical, and religious areas as well (Gatti, 2011). He challenged the dualistic Aristotelian conception of a world (physics) of "form" and "matter," and united them as "one." ...
... ταῦτα μὲν οὖν καὶ ὁ μέγας διαλαμβάνει Βασίλειος, ἀποδεῖξαι θέλων τῶν φωστήρων τούτων τὸ μέγεθος". 12 It was found among the works of Nicholas Kabasilas in the codex of the Monastery of Varlaam of Meteora, in Thessaly (Angelopoulos, 1970 (Zografidis, 2011;Constantinides, 1982). ...
Reference: The Phenomenon of Tides in Byzantine Science
... Over a thousand manuscripts of Aristotelian texts alone survive from the hands of Byzantine scribes. The history and legacy of Byzantine philosophy is explored in a number of recent sources (Ierodiakonou and Zografidis 2010;Bydén and Ierodiakonou 2012;Knezěvić 2015;Ierodiakonou 2002). 14 Aristotle argues this explicitly. ...
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