Commentaries on Plato: Phaedrus and Ion

Commentaries on Plato: Phaedrus and Ion
Author: Marsilio Ficino
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674031197

Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This volume contains Ficino's extended analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus.

Commentaries on Plato, Volume 2

Commentaries on Plato, Volume 2
Author: Marsilio Ficino
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2012-08-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674064720

Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His commentaries remained the standard guide to the philosopher’s works for centuries. Vanhaelen’s new translation of Parmenides makes this monument of metaphysics accessible to the modern student.

Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Republic: Volume 1

Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Republic: Volume 1
Author:
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2020-09-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781316608302

The commentary on Plato's Republic by Proclus (d. 485 CE), which takes the form of a series of essays, is the only sustained treatment of the dialogue to survive from antiquity. This three-volume edition presents the first complete English translation of Proclus' text, together with a general introduction that argues for the unity of Proclus' Commentary and orients the reader to the use that the Neoplatonists made of Plato's Republic in their educational program. Each volume is completed by a Greek word index and an English-Greek glossary that will help non-specialists to track the occurrence of key terms throughout the translated text. The first volume of the edition presents Proclus' essays on the point and purpose of Plato's dialogue, the arguments against Thrasymachus in Book I, the rules for correct poetic depictions of the divine, a series of problems about the status of poetry across all Plato's works, and finally an essay arguing for the fundamental agreement of Plato's philosophy with the divine wisdom of Homer which is, in Proclus' view, allegorically communicated through his poems.

Platonic Theology

Platonic Theology
Author: Marsilio Ficino
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674017191

Platonic Theology is the visionary and philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This work, translated into English for the first time, is a key to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.

The Greek Commentaries on Plato's Phaedo

The Greek Commentaries on Plato's Phaedo
Author: Leendert Gerrit Westerink
Publisher:
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

The two volume work of L G Westerink's fine text and parallel translation of the surviving Greek Commentaries on Plato's Phaedo have not only been out of print for many years, but which have been virtually unobtainable even in the second hand market. This is the second volume (the first being the Commentary of Olympiodorus) which presents the two Commentaries of Damascius. Both volumes have excellent introductions, extensive notes, and indexes. Amendments and updates have been added to these volumes from the notes of Westerink.

All Things Natural

All Things Natural
Author: Marsilio Ficino
Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2010-08-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0856833592

Marsilio Ficino, a leading scholar of the Italian Renaissance who translated all the works of Plato into Latin, examines Plato’s Timaeus, the most widely influential and hotly debated of the Platonic writings. Offering a probable account of the creation and nature of the cosmos, the discussion incorporates such questions as What is the function of arithmetic and geometry in the design of creation? What is the nature of mind, soul, matter, and time? and What is our place in the universe? To his main commentary Ficino adds an appendix, which amplifies and elucidates Plato’s meanings and reveals fascinating details about Ficino himself.

Gardens of Philosophy

Gardens of Philosophy
Author: Arthur Farndell
Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2006-09-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0856833657

Under the patronage of the Medici family, Marsilio Ficino translated into Latin and commentated on the meaning and implications of key works by Plato—including 25 of Plato’s dialogues and 12 letters ascribed to the philosopher. The 40 concise articles in this collection comprise the first English translation of Ficino’s works and provide an insightful glimpse into the philosophy that contributed to the Renaissance.

Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides

Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides
Author: Proclus,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 668
Release: 1992-10-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780691020891

This is the first English translation of Proclus' commentary on Plato's Parmenides. Glenn Morrow's death occurred while he was less than halfway through the translation, which was completed by John Dillon. A major work of the great Neoplatonist philosopher, the commentary is an intellectual tour de force that greatly influenced later medieval and Renaissance thought. As the notes and introductory summaries explain, it comprises a full account of Proclus' own metaphysical system, disguised, as is so much Neoplatonic philosophy, in the form of a commentary.