Barlaam of Seminara is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Barlaam of Seminara as Italian theologian.
Barlaam of Seminara was born at Galatro in 1290. His recorded nationality is Greece.
Thought in this period moved between the Islamic world, the Jewish communities and the Latin West, and the same texts were argued over in three traditions.
The recorded fields of work are theology.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
That the work was done from Greece matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Barlaam of Seminara died in 1348, aged 58. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Fields: theology
