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	George Gemistos Plethon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Plethon was the author of De Differentiis, a description of the differences between Plato's and Aristotle's conceptions of God.
		George Scholarios (who became Gennadius II, Patriarch of Constantinople) later defended Aristotle and convinced the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaeologus that Plethon's support for Plato amounted to heresy.
		As a secular scholar Plethon was often not needed at the council.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Gemistos_Plethon (608 words)

	George Gemistos or Plethon
		George Gemistos (Constantinople 1360- Mystras 1452) was one of the most outstanding personalities of the Late Byzantine period.
		Gemistos was a fanatical supporter of platonic philosophy, so much so that he changed his name to "Plethon" so that it would be reminiscent of "Plato".
		As a follower of Platonism Plethon influenced the Western scholastic philosophy and the spirit of the Renaissance and humanism, and also dared to criticise and question the Christian dogma as a whole.
	members.fortunecity.com /fstav1/people/plethon.html (460 words)

	Demetrios Constantelos - A Conflict between Ancient Greek Philosophy and Christian Orthodoxy in the Late Greek Middle ...
		Plethon was not only an advocate for "the Greek nation and the rise of Greek nationalism"(1) but in his later years he championed a revival of ancient Greek religion in the place of traditional Christianity.
		Because Plethon did not develop a concrete theological and philosophical system, it is difficult to conclude whether he had rejected the totality of Christian doctrine and to what degree he attempted to introduce a new religion.
		Plethon may be seen as a theist whose system, though not free from pantheistic or polytheistic tendencies, was closely related to Christianity.
	www.myriobiblos.gr /texts/english/Constantelos_2.html (2569 words)

	20th WCP: George Gemistos Plethon on God: Heterodoxy in Defense of Orthodoxy
		The core of Plethon's criticism is that "...in assigning the spheres and their movements to the separate minds and substances, he assigns a sphere and the movement of it to God himself, thus placing him on a level with the minds dependent on him."
		Plethon may have seen his lectures in Florence as a way to lay a foundation for the spread of his esoteric doctrines.
		Plethon's defense of orthodoxy was, in fact, a defense of his heterodoxy.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Medi/MediDebo.htm (4115 words)

	George Gemistos Plethon -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Plethon was the author of De Differentiis, a description of the differences between Plato's and Aristotle's conceptions of (The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions) God.
		Accompanying John VIII were Plethon, his student (Click link for more info and facts about Johannes Bessarion) Johannes Bessarion, as well as George Scholarios (the future (Click link for more info and facts about Patriarch Gennadius II) Patriarch Gennadius II).
		Because of this Plethon is considered one of the most important influences on the Italian (The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries) Renaissance.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Ge/George_Gemistos_Plethon.htm (668 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Palaeologan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The family was an old one (George Palaeologus was a friend of Alexius I Comnenus), but its earliest generations are unknown.
		The first to marry into an imperial family was one Alexius Palaeologus, whose wife was a granddaughter of Zoe Dukaina, youngest daughter of Constantine X, and her husband Adrianus Comnenus, younger brother of Emperor Alexius I.
		The dynasty was a patron of literature and the arts; among others, George Gemistos Plethon came to prominence.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Palaeologan (1308 words)

	Culture in Late Byzantine Period
		The son of a prominent family, he was born in Constantinople in 1360 and acquired a very good general and classical education.
		Under him, Gemistos must have already formed serious reservations regarding the intellectual and political level of the Byzantine state, as well as regarding the Christian religion.
		of that time, Plethon was the first Byzantine philosopher who dared to criticise and question the Christian dogma as a whole.
	www.fhw.gr /chronos/10/en/pl/pn/pnf4.html (289 words)

	VDI George Gemistos (or Plethon Burned) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The allegation on Plethon being a pagan is a quite old one although I am not completely certain it was correct, I wouldn't find a little or not so little flening on Scholarios part extraordinary and would tend to follow Carlos vis a vis the book of laws.
		George Gemistos was an very interesting man. He was one of the last great intellectuals of the Byzantine Empire.
		George Gemistos, being such a great intellectual, was brought along on this expedition.
	www.seriousliving.net /new-3423704-477.html (1809 words)

	George Gemistos Plethon [Archive] - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Plethon's thought was condemned by his contemporary Gennadios, Patriarch of Constantinopel, who burned part of Plethon's work and stimulated the execution of Plethon's "disciple" Iouvenalios.
		The life and stuggle of Plethon, who lived a large part of his life in Mistra near ancient Sparta, as to symbolise his attanchment to the old heart of Hellas, is extremely relevant for the situation described below, in the Greek Orthodox Church.
		Plethon showes us the way to rebirth of White European Aryan race and culture, and is a true representative of Aryan thought, against the Judeo-Christian infection that the Aryan body must excrete to live and gain the future.
	www.stormfront.org /archive/t-173695NWO/t-189776George_Gemistos_Plethon.html (1527 words)

	Was there Life beyond the Life beyond? - Articles
		Pythagoras’ sojourn in Egypt is attested by a number of authors including Clement of Alexandria, who in his Stromata states that Pythagoras was a student of Sonchis the Egyptian archprophet.23 In any case, the notion that the transmigration of souls originated in Egypt is a rather familiar idea among early Byzantine writers.
		Plethon was a Neoplatonist whose contribution to the Italian Renaissance remains to be assessed.115
		The death of Plethon, less than a year before the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, marks the end of the philosophical eschatological tradition in Byzantium.
	www.ajna.com /articles/was_there_life_beyond_the_life_beyond.php (11853 words)

	St. Pachomius Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		After the violent death of his teacher, Plethon moved or was exiled to Mistras in the Pelopennesus; he was suspected of heresy and paganism.
		In 1428, Plethon became an advisor to John VIII, Palæologos and was a delegate at the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438/1439), which discussed the reunion of the churches at Rome and Constantinople.
		Plethon wrote commentary on both Plato and Aristotle; he attempted to synthesize neo-Platonic philosophy with belief in the Olympian gods.
	www.voskrese.info /spl/XgemistPletho.html (271 words)

	Art/Museums: Byzantium, Faith and Power (1261-1557) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		One of its leading figures, George Gemistos Plethon (1360-1452), encouraged a new interest in the classical philosophers, especially Plato, and formulated a revival of worship of ancient Hellenistic gods.
		Plethon accompanied Emperor John VIII Palaiologos to the Council of Ferrara-Florence, where his lectures on Plato are thought to have inspired Cosimo de' Medici's founding of the Platonic Academy.
		Equally engaging is a fine circular miniature mosaic of Saint George Slaying the Dragon that is in the collection of the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
	www.thecityreview.com /byzant.html (6498 words)

	Enlaces : Society : Philosophy : Philosophers : P : Plethon,_George_Gemistus :: 100cia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Autograph of Georgios Gemistos Plethon - Original manuscript of the Byzantine scholar..
		Catholic Encyclopedia: Plethon, Georgius Gemistus - An encyclopedia entry with a short list of secondary literature by William Turner..
		George Gemistos Plethon on God: Heterodoxy in Defense of Orthodoxy - An essay by Darien C. DeBolt.
	www.100cia.com /recursos/enlaces/Society/Philosophy/Philosophers/P/Plethon,_George_Gemistus (141 words)

	George Gemistos Plethon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Plethon era el autor de De Differentiis, una descripción de las diferencias entre los conceptos de Platón y de Aristotle de God.
		Manuel hizo Plethon confinar en Mistra, aunque él permanecía algo de una celebridad.
		Acompañando a Juan VIII era Plethon, su estudiante Johannes Bessarion, así como George Scholarios (el patriarca futuro Gennadius II).
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ge/George%20Gemistos%20Plethon.htm (608 words)

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		One of the men who came in the delegation of the Eastern Church was George Gemistos (aka Plethon, 1355-1452).
		Even though Gemistos was a pagan philosopher, he had his own Platonic academy at Mistra in Greece, and was well known as a great thinker and teacher whom the Em peror wanted to represent the Byzantine cause.
		The idea of it being raised in the mind of Cosimo de Medici under the influence of Plethon, he had selected Marsilio Ficino to head i t but at the time he was just a boy of six.
	www.tomworrel.com /images/The_Rosicrucian_Tradition_Carreggi.doc (3771 words)

	Byzantines in Renaissance Italy
		From the terror or oppression of the Turkish arms, the natives of Thessalonica and Constantinople escaped to a land of freedom, curiosity and wealth...
		I shall not attempt to enumerate the restorers of Grecian literature in the fifteenth century; and it may be sufficient to mention with gratitude the names of Theodore Gaza, of George of Trebizond, of John Argyropulus and Demetrius Chalcocondyles, who taught their native language in the schools of Florence and Rome (Gibbon, 7: 129-30).
		Early in the fifteenth century, Manuel Chrysoloras co-operated with Uberto Decembrio (d.1427) to produce a Latin version of Plato's Republic, and in Rome the process of translation was specifically encouraged by Popes Nicholas V (1447-55) and Sixtus IV (1471-84).
	www.the-orb.net /encyclop/late/laterbyz/harris-ren.html (3731 words)

	George Gemistos Plethon - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		George Gemistos Plethon - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Plethon (618 words)

	City University of Hong Kong /All Locations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		George Farquhar / edited, with an introduction and notes, by William Archer.
		George Garrett the Elizabethan trilogy / edited by Brooke Horvath and Irving Malin.
		George Gemistos Plethon : the last of the Hellenes / C.M. Woodhouse.
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	Woodhouse \| Gemistos Plethon: The Last of the Hellenes \| Book #24199 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Gemistos Plethon: The Last of the Hellenes
		This book is a study of the life and writings of the Byzantine philosopher George Gemistos (d.1452), who called himself Plethon.
		Special attention is given to Gemistos¹ controversy with George Scholarios on the respective merits of Plato and Aristotle; and to his impact on the Italian humanists during the council of Union between the eastern and western churches at Ferrara and Florence, 1438-9
	www.powellschicago.com /html/reprints/24199.html (81 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Georgius Gemistus Plethon
		Although he wrote commentaries on Aristotle's logical treatises and on Porphyry's "Isagoge", he was a professed Platonist in philosophy.
		In 1441 Plethon had returned to the Peloponnesus, and there he died and was buried at Misithra in 1450.
		Plethon's most important works are the "Laws" written in imitation of Plato's "Laws", which was condemned by Gennadios, Patriarch of Constantinople, and "On the Differences between Plato and Aristotle", in which he attacks the Aristotelian philosophy and asserts the superiority of Platonism.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12166a.htm (540 words)

	MISTRA ESTATES - LADOPOULOS - Extra Virgin Olive Oil - Mistra
		At the close of the fourteenth century Mistra emerged as a cultural capital.
		Not only had it already attracted many of the best artists from Constantinople, but now it became a haven for scholarship." George Gemistos Plethon, a Neoplatonic philosopher who lived most of his life in Mistra had a profound influence on his era, the first half of the 15th century.
		It was in Plethon's honour that Cosimo dei Medici founded the Academy at Florence" Runciman says.
	www.mistraestates.gr /mistra.htm (409 words)

	Culture in Late Byzantine Period
		Theodore Metochites, Nikephoros Gregoras, George Gemistos or Plethon and George Gennadios Scholarios.
		He taught philosophy at Mistra and believed that the ideal state would be built on the Neoplatonic philosophical system and not on Christianity.
		He was thus the ideologic opponent of the last philosopher of this period, Patriarch Gennadios Scholarios, who, although he wrote an extensive commentary on Aristotle and a lesser one on Plotinus, did not hesitate to throw Plethon's book Nomon Syngraphe ("Book of Laws") into the fire with his own hands, after the latter's death.
	pegasos.fhw.gr /chronos/10/en/pl/pn/pnd2.html (451 words)

	Political Affairs Magazine - BOOK REVIEW: BYZANTINE PHILOSOPHY by Basil Tatakis
		We will end this review with the chapter on the last three centuries with some comments about George Gemistos Plethon (c.1360-1450) who came to live in Italy.
		Plethon was very advanced and definitely put philosophy in the first place ahead of religion.
		We should feel some solidarity with Plethon even 550 years on as, Tatakis says, he believed “happiness emanates from the organization of the state” and in his memoirs, he “emerges...
	www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/1167/1/51?PrintableVersion=enabled (1030 words)

	American Cataclysm
		More than 200 years later, George Gemistos Plethon (1355-1452), a Platonic philosopher in Mistras, the provincial capital of Peloponnesos, urged the Roman Emperor to abandon large farms and return to small family farming for the Greeks.
		In fact Plethon's agrarian proposal -- probably the most radical agrarian reform idea in the Western world -- would have abolished not merely plantations but farm workers and private ownership of land.
		Plethon wanted to bring the Greeks to their senses and back to their Hellenic culture.
	www.earthrights.net /docs/cataclysm.html (8545 words)

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