Plethon the First Philhellene: Re-enacting the Antiquity

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angličtina
Original language name
Plethon the First Philhellene: Re-enacting the Antiquity
Original language description
Plethon's impact on western philosophy has two major features: he inspired a complex attitude toward ancient wisdom, and lives on in the myth that Ficino's philosophy of religion drew upon Plethon's initiative to re-found ancient theology. This paper focuses on the first aspect, namely the specific attitude towards the past. That is to say that Plethon initiated a new awareness of past history. Plethon's Hellenism is more than familiarity with the past of the Greeks, it is an '-ism' about Greece, a newattitude; and in that sense, Plethon as "the last of the Hellenes", as Woodhouse had it, is also the first Philhellene. The paper will outline some main features of 18th/19th-century Philhellenism and then show their presence in the early reception of Plethon: the desire to appropriate and invent ancient glory in one's present time already characterized the fame of Plethon from the very beginning.
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Project
<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0026" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0026: Centre for Renaissance texts</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Georgios Gemistos Plethon: The Byzantine and the Latin Renaissance
ISBN
978-80-244-4423-9
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Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
391-414
Publisher name
Univerzita Palackého
Place of publication
Olomouc
Event location
Olomouc
Event date
May 10, 2013
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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