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Philosophy in Byzantium: The Order of Nature and Order of Humankind October 5–6, 2017

05.10.2017 at 09:30  – 06.10.2017 at 17:30 

Philosophy in Byzantium:
The Order of Nature and Order of Humankind
October 5–6, 2017


Thursday, October 5


Cosmology and Patristics


9:30 – 10:30
Torstein Theodor Tollefsen (Oslo)
The Cosmology of Maximus the Confessor

10:45 – 11:45
Julia Konstantinovsky (Oxford)
Gregory of Nyssa's Cosmology

12:00 – 13:00
Johannes Zachhuber (Oxford)
The Christian Philosophy of Leontius of Jerusalem

Aristotelian Reception: Soul and Perception

15:00 – 16:00
Katerina Ierodiakonou (Athens, Geneva)
Byzantine Theories of Vision

16:30 – 17:30
George Karamanolis (Vienna)

The Byzantine Reception of Aristotle’s Doctrine of the Soul in De Anima

Friday, October 6


Aristotelian Reception: Logic and Rhetoric

9:30 – 10:30
Christophe Erismann (Vienna)
Relational Homonymy: On Some Opinionated
Byzantine Readings of Categories 1a1–6

10:45 – 11:45
Michele Trizio (Bari)
Byzantine Inspiration: Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253),
the Posterior Analytics, and Adam’s Fall

12:00 – 13:00
Melina Vogiatzi (LMU Munich)
The Byzantine Reception of Aristotle’s Rhetoric

Cosmology and Patristics

15:00 – 16:00
Denis Walter (Bonn)
Knowledge of Created Nature in Psellos' Thought

16:30 – 17:30
Andrew Louth (Durham)
World-Order and Human Order in John Damascene

Event location:
MUSAΦ – Munich School of Ancient Philosophy
Leopoldstr. 11B, Room 433
80802 München


Organizers:
Peter Adamson (peter.adamson@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Dimitrios Vasilakis (dimitrios.vasilakis@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Jonathan Greig (jonathan.greig@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)

Sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG),
“Natur in Politischen Ordnungsentwürfen: Antike–Mittelalter–Frühe Neuzeit” (DFG-Forschergruppe 1986