Princeton Workshop to Address the Thought of Maximus Confessor (580-622 AD)

The Philosopher and Church Father Maximus Confessor was,as a thinker,positioned between Late Antiquity and Byzantium.A workshop at Princeton University by Sotiris Mitralexis,Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the City University of Istanbul and Stanley Seeger Visiting Research Fellow,Hellenic Studies,Princeton,will seek to clarify the implications for Maximus' precise positioning in the intellectual currents of Late Antique Thought,of his apparently inconsistent conception of "intelligible creation."An attempt will be made to ascertain whether the supposed self-contradictions in his concept can be reconciled.*
Professor Mitralexis has a doctorate in Philosophy from Freie University,Berlin (2014) and a doctorate in Theology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2017);as well as a Classics degree from the University of Athens.He is the author of "From Mercy Repose:A Comtemporary Reading of Maximus Confessor's Theory of Time (2017).*
The workshop will take place on 30 March 2018 at 1:30 pm in Room 103 of the Scheide Caldwell House at Princeton University,New Jersey.