
Ever-Moving Repose
A Contemporary Reading of Maximus the Confessor's Theory of Time
Sotiris Mitralexis(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 14. April 2017
256 pages
978-1-5326-0704-2 (ISBN)
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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 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 the logoi and deification. In this theory, time is not merely measuring ontological motion, but is more particularly measuring a relationship, the consummation of which effects the transformation of time into a dimensionless present devoid of temporal, spatial, and generally ontological distance--thereby manifesting a perfect communion-in-otherness. In examining Maximian temporality, the book is not focusing on only 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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24
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English
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Eugene
United States
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978-1-5326-0704-2 (9781532607042)
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Sotiris Mitralexis is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the City University of Istanbul and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Winchester. During Lent term of 2017, he was Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Senior Research Associate at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He holds a doctorate in Philosophy from the Freie Universitat Berlin and a degree in Classics from the University of Athens. He has taught Philosophy at Bogazici University (Istanbul), and in Athens and Berlin.
Content
- Intro
- A Contemporary Reading of Maximus the Confessor's Theory of Time
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Introducing Maximus the Confessor-and Our Contemporary Perspective
- 1 Maximus the Confessor
- 2 Hermeneutic Tools in Approaching Maximus: Christos Yannaras' Ontology
- 3 Ontological, Epistemological, Anthropological Themes in Maximus
- 4 Maximus' "Logical" Ontology: The ????? of Beings
- Part II Maximus the Confessor's Understanding of Motion and Temporality
- 5 Motion and Time in Aristotle's Physics as a Precursor to Maximus' Definition of Time
- 6 Maximus' Philosophy of Motion
- 7 Introducing Maximus' Conception of Time
- 8 The Fundamentals of Temporality, Spatiality, and Motion: Sections 35-40 from the Tenth "Difficulty"
- 9 Inverted Temporality: The Aeon
- 10 Ever-Moving Repose
- Concluding Remarks: Reconstructing Maximus the Confessor's Theory of Time
- Bibliography
- Index
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