ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the major points on which Aristotle differs from Plato, in Pletho's judgment, by critically presenting his main arguments, which are invariably favorable to Plato, because of the perceived imbalance in favor of Aristotle in the Latinized West. It is clear that Pletho's message to the renascent Europe was radically novel. Aristotle, as Pletho presented him to the Europeans, was incompatible with their religious faith in God, in miraculous creation, divine providence, and any serious concern about sinful human souls. Pletho's portrait of Aristotle resembled neither the Averroist nor the Thomist portraits of him. In Pletho's judgment, Aristotle went astray any time he deviated from the right path of Platonism. To Pletho the time seemed ripe for another of Plato's revivals. Pletho would recommend the reading of Aristotle, whose works are replete with many and good Platonic doctrines.
