Radical Platonism in Byzantium Siniossoglou Niketas
Radical Platonism in Byzantium Siniossoglou Niketas Byzantium has recently attracted much attention, but principally among cultural, social and economic historians. It argues that Plethon brought to…
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Radical Platonism in Byzantium Siniossoglou Niketas
Byzantium has recently attracted much attention, but principally among cultural, social and economic historians. It argues that Plethon brought to their fulfilment latent tendencies among Byzantine humanists towards a distinctive anti-Christian and pagan outlook. This book shifts the focus to intellectual history, exploring the thoughts of visionary reformer Gemistos Plethon (c.1355-1452).
It was also a groundbreaking reaction to the bankruptcy of a pre-existing humanist agenda and to aborted attempts at the secularisation of the State, whose cause Plethon had himself championed in his two utopian Memoranda. His magnum opus, the pagan Nomoi, was meant to provide an alternative to and escape-route from the polarity of the Orthodoxy of Gregory Palamas and Thomism. Inspired by Plato, Plethon's secular utopianism and paganism emerge as the two sides of a single coin.
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