>Start with the GreeksUhh yeah no, I'm not going that far back but I am willing to start with the Byzantines
>>24727350A Byzantine theologian would unironically tell you to start with the Greeks (although just Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus)
>>24727350Studying people who studied the greeks? Kek, just start with the Greeks, it would be beneficial for you especially. You can study Plotinus or Proclus at least.
>>24727350Look up the Cappadocian Fathers and read everything they wrote, then read Gregory Palamas. Alsohttps://classics.fas.harvard.edu/byzantine-reading-list
>>24727350>Start with the Greeks>Start with the Greeks (later date)
>>24727356No. The Orthodox Romans from Year 1000 would tell you to start with Church Fathers particularly the works of the Three Hierarchs.Start with your Best: Cappadocians > Athenians just as Theology > Philosophy.Read the Theologians FIRST and the Philosophers LAST
>>24727639>Read the Theologians FIRST and the Philosophers LASTPhilosophy without God is literally pointless: hence why it's THEO Logia: GOD'S Logic/Wisdom, not's Man's as Philosophy anthropocentrically presupposes.
>>24727639Why?
>>24727645 see >>24727644Was expecting you to post a second later.God precedes man. That's why you study God and understand His Phenomenology/Worldview before you can have a complete philosophical/anthropological worldview (mankind didn't make this place or itself).
>>24727653>That's why you study God and understand His Phenomenology/WorldviewIt took philosophers like Husserl/Heidegger ~2 millennia to get to what Theologians Gregory Palamas taught in the 14th century, or St. Athanasius did in the 4th century.Orthodoxy is Theo-Philosophy: Philosophy that makes sense by borrowing God's Eyes.We're all called to be like Christ: to be Saints and to know God's Will.Thus follow Christ, illuminate with the Holy Spirit, so that the Father may know & teach His Children.This is why you follow Orthodox Christian Theology.
