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- Title
INTERACTION OF PHILOSOPHY AND NATURAL SCIENCES IN BYZANTINE EMPIRE.
- Authors
Zozulak, Jan
- Abstract
The aim of this paper is an analysis of the interaction of philosophy and natural sciences in Byzantine Empire. The cornerstone for this will be the clarification of the function of philosophy as a metascience (μεταεπιστημη) in Greek thought, which grappled the order of things in its functional unity of macroscopic and microscopic observation of the world. This macroscopic observation was never at odds with microscopic research but was a universal science (καθoλou επισεημη) or science about scientifcally knowable phenomena (η μαλισεα επιστημη τou μαλιστα μπιστητou), that is, philosophy. Despite philosophy being an activity closely linked to natural sciences, it is not a science in itself, even though it is often mistaken for such as a term. Philosophy as knowledge, or a function that leads to knowledge, is called science (επισ(#964;ητημη), but this does not make it equal to scientifc disciplines. In the unity of all scientifc disciplines, which are hierarchically ordered into a pyramid, philosophy always stands on top, it being a science about scientifcally knowable phenomena. Out of all the scientifc disciplines, philosophy is the one that leads to knowledge of frst beginnings and causes. It is a general observation of reality, which secures the unity of scientifcally knowable facts and phenomena. Philosophical knowledge as a "universal science" (καθooλou επιστημη) concentrates all partial fndings into a unifed whole. Philosophy is continually attempting to reach a global understanding, while science focuses on a microscopic observation of a specifc part of the system.
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHY; NATURAL history; SCIENTIFIC knowledge; PHILOSOPHY of science; BYZANTINE Empire
- Publication
Komunikácie, 2018, Vol 20, Issue 1A, p8
- ISSN
1335-4205
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26552/com.c.2018.1a.8-15