Un échange conflictuel : quelle est la meilleure philosophie ?

Abstract

Byzantine Scholars, who arrived in Italy during the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438-1439) to reunite the two Churches of the East and the West, played a significant role in the philosophical culture of the Renaissance. The purpose of this article is to highlight the contribution of Cardinal Bessarion and of other Byzantine émigrés in the humanist revival of the reading practices of ancient texts, in the controversies over the theological and soteriological interpretation of Platonism and Aristotelianism and in the debates on the relationship between dialectic and rhetoric.