Sotiris Mitralexis

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Ever-Moving Repose (eBook, PDF)

A Contemporary Reading of Maximus the Confessor''s Theory of Time

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Sotiris Mitralexis offers a contemporary look at Maximus the Confessor''s (580-662 CE) understanding of temporality, logoi, and deification, through the perspective of the contemporary philosopher and theologian Christos Yannaras, as well as John Zizioulas and Nicholas Loudovikos. Mitralexis argues that Maximus possesses both a unique theological ontology and a unique threefold theory of temporality: time, the Aeon, and the radical transformation of temporality and motion in an ever-moving repose. With these three distinct modes of temporality, a Maximian theory of time can be reconstructed, which can be approached via his teaching on logoi and deification. In this theory, time is not merely measuring ontological motion, but is more precisely measuring a relationship, the consummation of which effects the transformation of time into a dimensionless present, devoid of temporal, spatial, and general ontological distance. This manifests a perfect communion-in-otherness. In examining Maximian temporality, the author not only focusses on one aspect of Maximus'' comprehensive Weltanschauung, but looks at the Maximian vision as a whole through the lens of temporality and motion.

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Autor

Sotiris Mitralexis is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the City University of Istanbul and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Winchester. He is the editor of Ludwig Wittgenstein between Analytic Philosophy and Apophaticism (2015), Mustard Seeds in the Public Square (2017), and the forthcoming The Fountain and the Flood and Maximus the Confessor as a European Philosopher (2017).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: James Clarke & Co Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780227906804
• Artikelnr.: 56935686