Nogovitsin O.N. (2018) The Unity of Being in Plethon: «On the difference between Plato and Aristotle» and «Against the writing of Scholarios in defense of Aristotle» ...

Abstract

The paper is dedicated to analysis of the rationale George Gemistos Plethon puts forth in regard of the unity of the concept of being in his treatises “On the difference between Plato and Aristotle and “Against the writing of Scholarios in defense of Aristotle”, which was written in response to George Scholarios’ objections to the first of the mentioned Plethon’s works. Plethon considers the key ontological issue on the basis of the difference between Aristotle’s position, who affirmed the being to be spoken out as a predicate in homonymic way (in different senses) and Plato’s view, whom Plethon reckons as the core supporter of the thesis on the unity of being, that the being is spoken out as a predicate in synonymic way (in a single sense).