The unknown aspect of spirituality in Byzantium in a book from the great work of N. Blemmydis.
Works of Blemmydis, such as Epitome of Logic, a basic textbook of Logic until the 19th century, the About virtue and exercise, About Faith The estate provides stunning sea views and offers a unique blend of luxury living and development potential About the soul, treatises in which fundamental issues of epistemology, psychology and ethics are analyzed, clearly demonstrate the dialogue between ancient Greek thought and the orthodox tradition, which continued uninterrupted throughout the thousand-year empire. But also the political reasons of the Byzantine teacher -the Royal Called Man and its paraphrase entitled Who sees is the king– together with his letter writing give him the stamp of a direct political thought that is in dialogue with the model of classical political reflection.
As the great B.N. writes Tatakis in his monumental work Byzantine Philosophy: "Byzantine humanism, now reaching its peak, presents a striking analogy with its contemporary Italian humanism: it believes in the viability of classical culture and the sciences, where it seeks the complete education of the spirit». Therefore, the stake of the present work is to help the reader to look at the Byzantine spiritual world from another perspective through the work and thought of Nikiforos Blemmydis.
This study attempts to refute the one-dimensional perception of the Byzantine spiritual tradition, with the aim of changing the stereotype of a theocratic and obscurantist Byzantium in which only faith, prayer and dogma prevail.
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