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Pléthon le retour de Platon
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ISSN: 09854924 ISBN: 9782711618590 2711618595 Year: 2007 Volume: *8 Publisher: Paris: Vrin,

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La Renaissance commence vraiment avec Pléthon, même si l'orthodoxie a d'emblée souhaité faire disparaître les œuvres du philosophe maudit. Contemporain de Nicolas de Cues et se voulant comme lui romain, mais du point de vue de Constantinople, Pléthon embrasse par la pensée le monde connu et sa diversité, pour élaborer le modèle d'une constitution qui permettrait à tous les peuples de coexister dans la paix. Alors que l'Occident latin est encore aristotélicien, Pléthon demande le retour de Platon et des anciens sages. Rappelant qu'il n'y a de foi que rationnelle, il ose parier sur l'idéalisme et le principe hiérarchique, sur la théologie affirmative et la pluralité en Dieu. La requête est entendue par Cosme l'Ancien et par Marsile Ficin. Le greffon sera bien transplanté puisque l'œuvre centrale de Pléthon rayonne au cœur de la Théologie platonicienne. Pourtant la Renaissance ne fructifiera qu'au prix d'une double trahison.

George Gemistos Plethon: : the last of the Hellenes
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ISBN: 0198247672 9780198247678 Year: 1986 Publisher: Oxford: Clarendon,


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Nicolaus Scutellius, O.S.A., as pseudo-pletho : the sixteenth-century treatise "Pletho in Aristotelem" and the Scribe Michael Martinus Stella
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ISBN: 8822255143 9788822255143 Year: 2005 Volume: 41 Publisher: Firenze Leo S. Olschki


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The philosophy of Gemistos Plethon : Platonism in late Byzantium, between Hellenism and orthodoxy
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ISBN: 9781409452942 9781315554723 9781317021476 1409452948 Year: 2013 Publisher: Farnham: Ashgate,

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George Gemistos Plethon (c. 1360-1454) was a remarkable and influential thinker, active at the time of transition between the Byzantine Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance. His works cover literary, historical, scientific, but most notably philosophical issues. Plethon is arguably the most important of the Byzantine Platonists and the earliest representative of Platonism in the Renaissance, the movement which generally exercised a huge influence on the development of early modern thought. Thus his treatise on the differences between Plato and Aristotle triggered the Plato-Aristotle controversy of the 15th century, and his ideas impacted on Italian Renaissance thinkers such as Ficino. This book provides a new study of Gemistos’ philosophy. The first part is dedicated to the discussion of his 'public philosophy'. As an important public figure, Gemistos wrote several public speeches concerning the political situation in the Peloponnese as well as funeral orations on deceased members of the ruling Palaiologos family. They contain remarkable Platonic ideas, adjusted to the contemporary late Byzantine situation. In the second, most extensive, part of the book the Platonism of Plethon is presented in a systematic way. It is identical with the so-called philosophia perennis, that is, the rational view of the world common to various places and ages. Throughout Plethon’s writings, it is remarkably coherent in its framework, possesses quite original features, and displays the influence of ancient Middle and Neo-Platonic discussions. Plethon thus turns out to be not just a commentator on an ancient tradition, but an original Platonic thinker in his own right. In the third part the notorious question of the paganism of Gemistos is reconsidered. He is usually taken for a Platonizing polytheist who gathered around himself a kind of heterodox circle. The whole issue is examined in depth again and all the major evidence discussed, with the result that Gemistos seems rather an unorthodox Christian with a strong inclination to ancient thought than a pagan in the ancient sense of the word.


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The philosophy of Gemistos Plethon
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ISBN: 1317021495 1315554720 1409452956 9781409452959 9781409452942 1409452948 9781472402929 1317021487 Year: 2013 Publisher: Burlington

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George Gemistos Plethon (c. 1360-1454) was a remarkable and influential thinker, active at the time of transition between the Byzantine Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance. His works cover literary, historical, scientific, but most notably philosophical issues. Plethon is arguably the most important of the Byzantine Platonists and the earliest representative of Platonism in the Renaissance. This book provides a new study of Gemistos' philosophy. The first part is dedicated to the discussion of his 'public philosophy', in the second, most extensive, part of the book the Platonism of Plethon

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