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.