https://fp.waik.stronazen.pl:443//index.html?id=785 Index des publications de Authors Sotiris Mitralexis fr 0 https://fp.waik.stronazen.pl:443//4743-20-2-fall-2015-01.html We are most thankful to Forum Philosophicum, and its Editor-in-Chief Marcin Podbielski, for the invitation to act as guest editors in a special issue dedicated to looking at Maximus the Confessor from a philosophical perspective—by which we mean both the philosophical efflorescence of Maximus’ thought per se, approached within its historical context, and the attempt to find Maximian solutions to contemporary philosophical problems or to engage Maximus’ thought in dialogue with modern philosophy. In many ways, this special issue is a sister volume to the book Maximus the Confessor as a European Philosopher (Eugene: Cascade / Wipf & Stock, forthcoming later in 2016). Both form parts of a sustained attempt at highlighting Maximus the Confessor’s relevance for philosophical inquiry, without denying the explicitly theological nature of his thought in doing so. Believing that there is much philosophical fecundity in this approach, we remain with the hope that it will be continued. Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:48:01 +0100 Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:48:01 +0100 https://fp.waik.stronazen.pl:443//4743-20-2-fall-2015-01.html https://fp.waik.stronazen.pl:443//4721-19-2-fall-2014-05.html Saint Maximus the Confessor’s voluminous corpus constitutes a coherent and lucid philosophical and theological system, notwithstanding the existence of obscure, difficult, and at times even contradictory passages. A question stemming from Maximus’ work is whether the “intelligible creation” (noēte ktisis) is imperishable or corruptible, which would have important implications for a number of other issues like the created / uncreated distinction, Maximus’ relationship to Neoplatonism, et al. However, Maximus provides us with contradictory passages concerning this subject, characterizing the noēte ktisis as both corruptible and imperishable. While in certain passages of the Ambigua ad Ioannem (e.g. MPG91, 1177B–80A) he states that created intelligible beings move “according to corruption,” excluding the possibility of natural incorruptibility for them, in other passages (e.g. MPG91, 1165A) he states that the noēte ktisis possesses imperishability by nature, and not merely by grace. In this paper I will attempt to examine this apparent inconsistency on the basis of these two examples and to discuss which of both positions should be considered as Maximus’ “primary” position. Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:28:14 +0100 Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:31:45 +0100 https://fp.waik.stronazen.pl:443//4721-19-2-fall-2014-05.html