ABSTRACT
After the first principle of all, George Gemisttos Plethon, following Plato, postulates the world of the intelligible Forms, that is the model of our sensible world. Plato’s works and the Magian Oracles, discerning between the first, higher God and creator and the second, lower one, must have also had a strong influence on Plethon in this point. According to Plethon, the name ‘bonds’ indicates that ‘the things here attach to them because of their desire for them’. Plethon goes on in his argument against Aristotle to explain that a species exists in every respect ‘more’ in the whole than in the parts and that the universal is more in actuality than the particular. Plethon claims that the comparison with a mirror is inaccurate, because we need several mirrors to produce the images, and so he uses a comparison with number.
