Philosophizing in the Christian East

When describing the ways that reflection took in the Byzantine tradition and in today`s Christian East, it is better to use term philosophizing rather than philosophy. This because the main interest in the act of reflection or of meditation was not elaboration of a systematic approach to reality, but a lived act, constantly related with life. So, it is proper to talk on a practical interest in philosophizing, even if the meaning of practical is, in this case, rather special. Philosophizing is a special kind of quest, the one that cannot anticipate what follows, even if a scope is always present, so is pertinent to describe this attitude as radical, a radical form of inquiring a dynamic, striking reality.