Aristotelian Ethics in Byzantium
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Byzantine philosophy, Aristotle’s Byzantine Commentators, Michael of Ephesos, Eustratios of Nicaea, “Anonymus”, Heliodoros of Prussa, Georgios Pachymeres, Michael Psellos, John Italos, Nikephoros Blemmydes, George Gemistos PlethonAbstract
This paper argues that research in the primary sources must precede the investigation of Byzantine philosophy. Two points are to be considered, on the one hand, the gathering of texts, and, on the other hand, the study of texts in relation to their sources. Thus the external evidence as well as the internal evidence of texts should be examined. In this double regard, the manuscripts containing Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics are considered. Their authors are Michael of Ephesos, Eustratios of Nicaea, “Anonymus”, Heliodoros of Prussa, Georgios Pachymeres, Michael Psellos, John Italos, Nikephoros Blemmydes, George Gemistos Plethon.
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Benakis, L. G. (1978-1979). To problêma tôn genikôn ennoiôn kai ho ennoiologikos realismos tôn Byzantinôn (The Problem of General Science and the Realistic Realism of the Byzantines, in Greek). Philosophy, 8/9, 311-340.
Benakis, L. G. (1982a). The Problem of General Concepts in Neoplatonism and Byzantine Thought. (D. J. O’Meara, Ed.) Neoplatonism and Christian Thought, 248-249.
Benakis, L. G. (1982b). Was Aristotle's Political Philosophy Ignored in Byzantium? Proceedings of the 1st Panhellenic Philosophy Conference: Philosophy and Politics (pp. 230-236). Athens: Kardamitsa.
Benakis, L. G. (1991). Bibliographie Internationale sur la philosophie byzantine 1949-1990 Associa-tion Internationale des Études Byzantines. Comité Hellénique des Études Byzantines. Bibli-ographié byzantine publiée à l’occasion du XVIIIe congre international d’études byzantines (pp. 319-384). Moscow.
Benakis, L. G. (1995). Book review: Michael Psellos, Philosophica Minora, Vol. I, J. M. Duffy (Ed.), Vol. II, D. J. O’Meara (Ed.). Hellenica 45, 191-199.
Benakis, L. G. (2009). Aristotelian Ethics in Byzantium. Medieval Greek Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics Ch. Barber & D. Jenkins (eds.), 63-69, 210-221.
Benakis, L. G. (2013). Byzantine Philosophy, B. Athens: Parousia.
Browning, R. (1963). The Patriarchal School at Constantinople in the Twelfth Century, Byzantion 32 (1962), 167-201 & 33 (1963), 11-40.
Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca (CAG) (1882-1904). Edita consilii et auctoritate academiae litterarum Regiae Borussiacae. Vols. 1-23. Berlin: Georg Reimer Verlag.
Gémiste-Pléthon, G. (1987). De Traités de vertus (Br. Tambrun-Krasker, Ed.) Philosophi Byzantini 3. Athens-Leiden: Academy of Athens.
Giokarinis, K. (1964). Eustratius of Nicaea’s Defense of the Doctrine of the Ideas. Franciscan Stud-ies 24, 159–204.
Hatch, W. M. (1879). The Moral Philosophy of Aristotle. London: John Murray.
Hult, K. (2002). Theodor Metochites, On Ancient Authors and Philosophy. (K. Hult, Ed.). Goteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis.
Lloyd, A. C. (1987). The Aristotelianism of Eustratius of Nicaea. In J. Wiesner (Ed.) Aristoteles: Werk und Wirkung, II, (pp. 341-351). Berlin, New York: De Gruyter.
Mercken, H. P. F. (1973). The Greek Commentaries on the “Nicomachean Ethics” of Aristotle in the Latin Translation of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln (†1253), vol. 1: books I–IV (= Corpus Latinum Commentariorum in Aristotelem Graecorum VI/1). Critical edition with an introductory study by H. P. F. Mercken. Leiden: Brill.
Mercken, H. P. F. (1990b). The Greek Commentators on Aristotle’s Ethics. In R. Sorabji (Ed.) Aris-totle Transformed (pp. 429-436). London.
Merken, H. P. F. (1990a). Ethics as a Science in Albert the Great’s First Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics. Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Medieval Philoso-phy (S.I.E.P.M.). III, 251-260. Helsinki: Yliopistopaino.
Nicol, D. M. (1968). A Paraphrase on the Nicomachean Ethics Attributed to the Emperor John VI Cantacuzene. Byzantinoslavica 29, 1–16.
Pachymeres, G. (2002). Philosophia. Buch 10. Kommentar zur Metaphysik des Aristoteles. In E. Pappa (Ed.): Commentaria in Aristotelem Byzantina 2. Athens: Academy of Athens.
Sorabji, R. (1990b). The ancient commentators on Aristotle. In R. Sorabji (Ed.) Aristotle Transformed (pp. 1-30).
Sorabji, R. (Ed.) (1990a). Aristotle transformed. The Ancient Commentators and their Influence. Lon-don: Duckworth.
Trizio, M. (2006). Eustratius of Nicaea an Absolute and Conditional Necessity. A Survey of the Commentary on Book VI of the Nicomachean Ethics. Archiv für mittelalterliche Philosophie und Kultur 12, 35-63.
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BENAKIS, L. G. (2017). Aristotelian Ethics in Byzantium. WISDOM, 9(2), 67–73. https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v9i2.191
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