Vojtech Hladký

The Philosophy of Gemistos Plethon (eBook, PDF)

Platonism in Late Byzantium, between Hellenism and Orthodoxy

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Produktbeschreibung

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 is presented in a systematic way and in the third part the notorious question of the paganism of Gemistos is reconsidered.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317021490
• Artikelnr.: 48416846

Autorenporträt

VojtÄ>ch Hladkÿ is assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy and History of Sciences, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Part I Public Philosophy: Platonic reforms
Fate of the soul
Conclusion to part I: Platonism in practice. Part II Philosophia Perennis: Writings about the Perennial Philosophy
Introduction to the Perennial Philosophy
Division of reality
Zeus, the first principle
Supracelestial gods, the forms
The forms as the gods
Sensible cosmos
Nature mortal and human
Conclusion to part II: Plethon's Platonism. Part III Question of Religion: Becoming pagan
Gemistos' mysterious teacher
Witnesses
Change of name
Fight for orthodoxy
The book
Conclusion to part III: pagan or Christian? Appendix
Manuscript supplement
Primary sources
Secondary literature
Indexes.