In this book I have tried to show rationally and systematically how Greek philosophical thought of the early and middle Byzantine era answers the question of ontology. [...]In the particular philosophical tradition under study, the answers to the ontological question are ultimately concentrated in two basic terms: personality and eros. For Greek philosophical thought of the early and middle Christian periods, the starting point for approaching true being is the reality of the individual; and the method of this approach, which makes the personality accessible to knowledge, is eros.

X. Yannaras. Personality and Eros The text is given from the publication: Yannaras H. Selected: Personality and Eros. - M.: Russian Political Encyclopedia (ROSSPEN), 2005. Translation by G. V. Vdovin. Translation from modern Greek according to the edition: ς ᾽Αθήνα 1987.