Ioane Petrizi

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Ioane Petrizi ( Georgian იოანე პეტრიწი; * probably in the 12th century ; † in the early 13th century at the latest ) was a Georgian philosopher . He is best known for his commentary on the foundations of the theology of the ancient Neo-Platonist Proclus . He also had a strong influence on the development of the Georgian language and culture.

Life

According to traditional doctrine, Petrizi lived from the end of the 11th to the beginning of the 12th century, was a pupil of Johannes Italos , worked first in Constantinople , then in the Petrizoni monastery (now Batschkowo monastery ) in Bulgaria and finally in the time of Davits IV the builder at the Gelati Academy in West Georgia. According to more recent research based on linguistic studies, Petrizi lived in the second half of the 12th, at the latest at the beginning of the 13th century.

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According to traditional doctrine, Petrizi translated texts by Flavius ​​Josephus and Johannes Sinaites , especially during his time in the Gelati Academy . He is said to have written a Georgian grammar, written hymns and translated from the Bible and written commentaries on it.

According to the more recent research opinion, according to which he lived around 100 years later, he revised the existing terms of the Gelati Academy and in many cases replaced the old terms with his own. This is supported by the fact that since the end of the 12th century a number of new terms have appeared in Georgian literature, which Petrizi also uses; these terms could come from him.

He worked as a translator and commentator with Proclus , whose philosophy he also represented. He commented on the foundations of Proclus' theology . He follows Proclus in the reasoning, but sets priorities. In addition to the relationship between the all-embracing one and the many, Petrizi's themes are above all the one as the good , the types of good, limit and limitlessness, the "henads" (units), the true being, the levels of knowledge, the spirit, the soul , participation , pronoia , eternity, time, cause and caused as well as matter. He used examples from mathematics, physics, logic and music to justify his point of view. He also commented on other works of Proclus, such as his commentaries on Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Parmenides and Platonic theology . Even Aristotle is called, but the "Divine" and the "theologian" is just Proklos for Petritsi.

Petrizis is convinced that one thing is always completely different and incomprehensible. He compares it to the sun that illuminates the world. One can only speak of the one in analogy. Petrizi turns against stoics and peripatetics who want to find the principles and causes of knowledge in the body and in the individual. According to Petrizi, it is not possible to recognize the intelligible and the one from the empirical.

In the epilogue of his comment, Petrizi emphasizes the correspondence between the Platonic-Proclic philosophy and the Biblical-Christian tradition. However, his explanations show that he oriented himself more to Proclus than to Christian tradition. Indications for this are:

  • The one is the top for Petritsi hypostasis .
  • Petrizi hardly speaks about the will of God. Creation seems to be an ontological necessity.
  • Petrizi says nothing about the incarnation of God.
  • Matter is the lowest level of the One's effect.
  • He also interprets the fall of man as an ontological necessity.
  • Petrizi does not seem to believe in the resurrection of the whole person, that is, the soul and the body.
  • The world is eternal for Petrizi as it is for Proclus.

literature

  • Iremadze, Tengiz, Conceptions of Thought in Neoplatonism. On the reception of the Proclic Philosophy in the German and Georgian Middle Ages: Dietrich von Freiberg - Berthold von Moosburg - Joane Petrizi . In: Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie , Vol. 40. BR Grüner Publishing Company, Amsterdam - Philadelphia 2004.
  • E. Chelidze: About the life and work of Ioane Petrizi. In: Religion. 3-4-5, 1994, pp. 113-126.
  • Lela Alexidze, Lutz Bergemann (Hrsg.): Ioane Petrizi: Commentary on the Elementatio theologica of Proklos . In: Bochum Studies on Philosophy, Volume 47. Grüner, Amsterdam 2009, ISBN 978-90-6032-378-6 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Lela Alexidze, Lutz Bergemann (eds.): Ioane Petrizi: Commentary on the Elementatio theologica des Proklos , Amsterdam 2009, pp. 30–33.
personal data
SURNAME Petrizi, Ioane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES პეტრიწი, იოანე (Georgian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century or 12th century
DATE OF DEATH 12th century or 13th century