1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910438221003321

Titolo

2013 Passenger Car Yearbook

Pubbl/distr/stampa

SAE International

ISBN

0-7680-8071-1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462999803321

Autore

Hladky Vojtech

Titolo

The philosophy of Gemistos Plethon : Platonism in late Byzantium, between Hellenism and orthodoxy / / Vojtech Hladky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-02149-5

1-315-55472-0

1-4094-5295-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (403 p.)

Disciplina

186/.4

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

Religion - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Byzantine Empire Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Man and his Work; Gemistos and Scholarship; PART I: PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY; 1 Platonic Reforms; 2 Fate of the Soul; 3 Conclusion to Part I: Platonism in Practice; PART II: PHILOSOPHIA PERENNIS; 4 Writings about the Perennial Philosophy; 5 Introduction to the Perennial Philosophy; 6 Division of Reality; 7 Zeus, the First Principle; 8



Supracelestial Gods, the Forms; Defence of Platonic Forms; The Forms in Plethon's Laws; 9 The Forms as the Gods; Olympians; Titans (Tartarus); Table of the Gods of the First and Second Order

Sources of Plethon's Mythology10 Sensible Cosmos; Gods of the Third Order; Stars and Daemons; 11 Nature Mortal and Human; The Soul and the Human Situation; Fate and Freedom; Ethics, Cult and Politics; 12 Conclusion to Part II: Plethon's Platonism; PART III: QUESTION OF RELIGION; 13 Becoming Pagan; 14 Gemistos' Mysterious Teacher; 15 Witnesses; Pupils and Friends; Admirers; Adversaries; 16 Change of Name; 17 Fight for Orthodoxy; 18 The Book; 19 Conclusion to Part III: Pagan or Christian?; Appendix; Manuscript Supplement; Abbreviations; Primary Sources; Gemistos Plethon and His Contemporaries

Other Ancient, Byzantine and Renaissance AuthorsSecondary Literature; Systematic Bibliographies of Secondary Texts on Gemistos Plethon; Secondary Texts; Index of Passages Quoted; General Index

Sommario/riassunto

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