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Linos G. Benakis

Born

in Korfu, Greece

January 31, 1928

Died

October 12, 2022

Genre

Philosophy, History, Religion

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He studied Literature in the University of Thessaloniki (1946-1951), Classical Studies and Philosophy with a Scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (1957-1960) in the University of Cologne, from where he earned his doctorate. He taught in High Schools, while in 1963 started collaboration with the Centre for the Edition of Ancient Authors. In 1970 he worked in the Centre for the Research of Greek Philosophy of the Academy of Athens, of which he became director in 1973.
In 1982 he was elected member of the council of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Philosophy, and president of the Byzantine Philosophy Committee in the same Society. He was responsible for the edition of the series "Byzantine Philosophers" a He studied Literature in the University of Thessaloniki (1946-1951), Classical Studies and Philosophy with a Scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (1957-1960) in the University of Cologne, from where he earned his doctorate. He taught in High Schools, while in 1963 started collaboration with the Centre for the Edition of Ancient Authors. In 1970 he worked in the Centre for the Research of Greek Philosophy of the Academy of Athens, of which he became director in 1973.
In 1982 he was elected member of the council of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Philosophy, and president of the Byzantine Philosophy Committee in the same Society. He was responsible for the edition of the series "Byzantine Philosophers" and "Byzantine Commentaries on Aristotle" of the Academy of Athens. In 1984 he taught in the University of Princeton in USA and in 1987-88 in the University of Crete. He was member of many other scientific societies, editor of many conference proceedings, and was chairman in many conferences. In the decade of 1990 he was vice-president of the Ionian University in Corfu and founded the Group for the Study of Byzantine Philosophy in Greece. After 2000 he was again professor in the University of Crete and he published three corpus of his studies in Ancient, Byzantine and Neohellenic Philosophy. In 2008 in the series of "Byzantine Commentaries on Aristotle" in which he remains director and editor, he published the comments by Michael Psellos on Aristotle's Physics. From early in his life he was connected with friendship with great Modern Greek philosophers as were Basil Tatakis - of whom the work on Byzantine Philosophy he continued -, Evangellos Papanoutsos, Constantine Tsatsos, Ioannis Theodorakopoulos and Panagiotis Kanellopoulos.
In his research he employed the historical-critical method, backed by scrupulous textual verification and examination of the content of other scholars' findings, arriving eventually at a consistent interpretation of philosophical thought. This means that each philosopher's systematic thinking doesn't appear fragmentary, but is reconstructed in accordance with its internal coherence. His contribution in the interpretation and restoration of Byzantine philosophical texts was so effective that many younger scholars succeeded to approach more essentially the content of Greek philosophy and of European philosophy in general. ...more

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	Βυζαντινή Φιλοσοφία by Linos G. Benakis, Λίνος Γ. Μπενάκης really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Michael Psellos, Kommentar zur Physik des Aristoteles it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Μεταβυζαντινή φιλοσοφία 17ος - 19ος αιώνας : Έρευνα στις πηγές by Linos G. Benakis, Λίνος Γ. Μπενάκης it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Αρχαία Ελληνική Φιλοσοφία it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Μνήμη Πέντε Φιλοσόφων by Linos G. Benakis, Λίνος Γ. Μπενάκης it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Byzantine Philosophy B it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Theodore of Smyrna, Epitome of Nature and Natural Principles According to the Ancients it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Byzantine Philosophy: An Introductory Approach it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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