Plato's Third Eye

Studies in Marsilio Ficino's Metaphysics and its Sources

Michael J.B. Allen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

1995
Variorum (Verlag)
978-0-86078-472-2 (ISBN)

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Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was one of the luminaries of the Florentine Renaissance and the scholar responsible for the revival of Platonism. The translator and interpreter of the works of both Plato and Plotinus as well as of various Hermetic and Neoplatonic texts, Ficino was also a musician, priest, magus and psychotherapist, an original philosopher and the author of a vast and important correspondence with the intellectual figures of his day including Lorenzo the Magnificent. Professor Allen has become the foremost interpreter of Ficino’s metaphysics and mythology, and the ancient sources they draw upon; and this collection of essays assembles his work on Ficino’s complex interrogation of Platonic 'theology’ as not only a preparation for Christianity but as an enduring medium for intellectuals to explore and to express Christian truths.

Michael J.B. Allen, University of California - Los Angeles, USA

Contents: Introduction; The absent angel in Ficino’s philosophy; Ficino’s lecture on the Good?; The Sibyl in Ficino’s oaktree; Cosmogony and love: the role of Phaedrus in Ficino’s Symposium Commentary; Two commentaries on the Phaedrus: Ficino’s indebtedness to Hermias; Ficino’s Hermias translation and a new apologue (Co-authored with Roger A. White); Marsilio Ficino on Plato’s Pythagorean eye; Ficino’s theory of the five substances and the Neoplatonists’ Parmenides; Marsilio Ficino on Plato, the Neoplatonists and the Christian doctrine of the Trinity; The second Ficino-Pico controversy: Parmenidean poetry, eristic and the One; Marsilio Ficino’s interpretation of Plato’s Timaeus and its myth of the Demiurge; Marsilio Ficino, Hermes Trismegistus and the Corpus Hermeticum; Homo ad zodiacum: Marcilio Ficino and the Boethian Hercules; Summoning Plotinus: Ficino, smoke, and the strangled chickens; The soul as rhapsode: Marcilio Ficino’s interpretation of Plato’s Ion; Addenda & Corrigenda; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.4.1995
Reihe/Serie	Variorum Collected Studies
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 224 mm
Gewicht	589 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	0-86078-472-X / 086078472X
ISBN-13	978-0-86078-472-2 / 9780860784722
Zustand	Neuware