Some scholars have argued that Plethon viewed Plato as positing ex nihilo creation in his Timaeus.

In De Differentiis Plethon compares Aristotle's and Plato's conceptions of God, arguing that Plato credits God with more exalted powers as " creator of every kind of intelligible and separate substance, and hence of our entire universe ", while Aristotle has Him as only the motive force of the universe ; Plato's God is also the end and final cause of existence, while Aristotle's God is only the end of movement and change.

Plethon derides Aristotle for discussing unimportant matters such as shellfish and embryos while failing to credit God with creating the universe, for believing the heavens are composed of a fifth element, and for his view that contemplation was the greatest pleasure ; the latter aligned him with Epicurus, Plethon argued, and he attributed this same pleasure-seeking to monks, whom he accused of laziness.

Plethon believed the universe has no beginning or end in time, and being created perfect, nothing may be added to it.

Despite being a secular philosopher, Plethon was chosen to accompany John VIII on the basis of his renowned wisdom and morality.

He admired Plato so much that late in life he took the similar-meaning name Plethon.

After a number of cantos in which the elements of earth and air feature so strongly, Canto LXXXIII opens with images of water and light, drawn from Pindar, George Gemistos Plethon, John Scotus Eriugena, the mermaid carvings of Pietro Lombardo and Heraclitus ' phrase panta rei (" everything flows ").

After establishing himself as the Despot, Constantine worked to strengthen the defence of the Morea, including reconstructing a wall across the Isthmus of Corinth called the " Hexamilion " ( Six-mile-wall ), on the suggestion of the famous scholar and teacher of his, Plethon.

The Union was ratified at the Council of Florence in 1439 which John attended with 700 followers including Patriarch Joseph II of Constantinople and George Gemistos Plethon, a Neoplatonist philosopher influential among the academics of Italy.

Cosimo had been inspired by the arrival at the otherwise ineffective Council of Florence of Gemistos Plethon, who seemed a dazzling figure to the Florentine intellectuals.

1355 – 1452 / 1454 ) — later called Plethon or Pletho () — was a Greek scholar of Neoplatonic philosophy.

Plethon was the author of De Differentiis, a detailed comparison between Plato and Aristotles ' conceptions of God.

Manuel had Plethon confined in Mistra, though he remained something of a celebrity.

As a secular scholar, Plethon was often not needed at the council.

Cosimo de ' Medici attended these lectures and was inspired to found the Accademia Platonica in Florence, where Italian students of Plethon continued to teach after the conclusion of the council.

Because of this, Plethon is considered one of the most important influences on the Italian Renaissance.

Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine humanist and the first director of the Accademia Platonica, paid Plethon the ultimate honour, calling him ' the second Plato ', while Cardinal Bessarion speculated as to whether Plato's soul occupied his body.

Plethon may also have been the source for Ficino's Orphic system of natural magic.

While still in Florence, Plethon summarised his lectures in a volume titled On the Differences of Aristotle from Plato, commonly called De Differentiis.

Later, in response to Gennadius ' Defence of Aristotle, Plethon argued in his Reply that Plato's God was more consistent with Christian doctrine than Aristotle's, and this, according to Darien DeBolt, was probably in part an attempt to escape suspicion of heterodoxy.

* Harris, Jonathan, ' The influence of Plethon's idea of fate on the historian Laonikos Chalkokondyles ', in: Proceedings of the International Congress on Plethon and his Time, Mystras, 26 – 29 June 2002, ed.

An original early 15th century manuscript in the hand of Gemistus Pletho | Georgios Gemistos Plethon.

Mystras was also the last centre of Byzantine scholarship ; the Neoplatonist philosopher George Gemistos Plethon lived there until his death in 1452.

In the campaign waged by Plethon against Aristotelianism he contributed his share to the defence.

At Ferrara he founded an academy to offset the influence of the Platonic academy founded by Plethon at Florence.

Therefore Irenaeus describes man's creation as follows:

Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but here refers to the visual arts, which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.

The story describes the creation of self-replicating weapons factories designed to destroy the Anabis, a galaxy-spanning malevolent life form bent on destruction of the human race.

The doctrine of five phases describes two cycles of balance, a generating or creation ( 生, shēng ) cycle and an overcoming or destruction ( 克 / 剋, kè ) cycle of interactions between the phases.

One form describes the primeval state as an eternal union of two parents, and the creation takes place when the two are pulled apart.

describes a plurality of gods ( ʼelōhim ), which an older version in the Septuagint calls the “ assembly of the gods ,” although it does not indicate that these gods were co-actors in creation.

He continued by discussing the preface: " despite its obvious undependability as a guide to the actual process of the poem's composition, the preface can still, in Wheeler's words, lead us ' to ponder why Coleridge chose to write a preface ... ' What the preface describes, of course, is not the actual process by which the poem came into being, but an analogue of poetic creation as logos, a divine ' decree ' or fiat which transforms the Word into the world.

Although much of the narrative of the Old Testament describes the Judeo-Christian God as interacting with creation primarily through persuasion, and only occasionally through force.

He expressed these beliefs in his poem Mythopoeia circa 1931, which describes myth-making as an act of " sub-creation " within God's primary creation.

The Judeo-Christian story of creation describes God creating birds, and commanding them to multiply, but makes no direct mention of eggs.

* How to Fit a Large Program Into a Small Machine describes the creation and design of the Z-machine.

Historian of science Michael Shermer describes its website as being one of " the two best resources on the Internet on the evolution / creation topic " ( the other being TalkOrigins Archive ).

Plato, in his dialogue Timaeus, describes a creation myth involving a being called the demiurge ( δημιουργός " craftsman ").

The Popol Vuh describes the creation of the earth by the wind of the sea and sky, as well as its sequel.

Samuel Pepys saw the hybrid play on 18 February 1662 ; he describes it in his Diary as " a good play, and well performed " – he was especially impressed by the singing and dancing of the young actress who played Viola, Beatrice's sister ( Davenant's creation ).

The next step in the creation of the underlying mythology was the Lay of Earendel, a work composed of several poems that describes the mariner Earendel and his voyages and how his ship is turned into a star.

Whenever a business is established, it either explicitly or implicitly employs a particular business model that describes the architecture of the value creation, delivery, and capture mechanisms employed by the business enterprise.

Thus, the innermost purpose of the creation of all rational beings is their cognition of the existence of Allah and, hence, their conscious willingness to conform their own existence to whatever they may perceive of His will and plan: and it is this twofold concept of cognition and willingness that gives the deepest meaning to what the Quran describes as " worship ".

In The Greek Myths, Robert Graves describes the Pelasgian creation myth, which involves a singular creatrix goddess who dominates man and predates other deities.

The story of Sedna, which is a creation myth, describes how she came to rule over Adlivun, the Inuit underworld.

The Cherokee creation myth describes the earth as a great floating island surrounded by seawater.

(), the Navajo creation story, describes the prehistoric emergence of the Navajos, and centers on the area known as the Dinétah, the traditional homeland of the Navajo people.

He describes the creation of his next novel, The Entrance to Porlock, as follows: "… the labor of writing which was so painful that I find it hard, even now, to see beyond the memory of the pain to whatever merit it may have.

Romano-British culture describes the culture that arose in Britain under the Roman Empire following the Roman conquest of AD 43 and the creation of the province of Britannia.

His commentary on the creation of the world describes the universe expanding, and matter forming.