Ever-Moving Repose - Mitralexis, Sotiris

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Résumé :
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 focussing on only one aspect of Maximus' comprehensive Weltanschauung, but looks at the Maximian vision as a whole through the lens of temporality and motion....

Biographie:
Foreword - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction PART ONE: 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: PART TWO: 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...

Sommaire:
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)....