The Renaissance Of Plotinus
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| Author | : Anna Corrias |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 2020-06-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000080102 |
Plotinus (204/5–270 C.E.) is a central figure in the history of Western philosophy. However, during the Middle Ages he was almost unknown. None of the treatises constituting his Enneads were translated, and ancient translations were lost. Although scholars had indirect access to his philosophy through the works of Proclus, St. Augustine, and Macrobius, among others, it was not until 1492 with the publication of the first Latin translation of the Enneads by the humanist philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) that Plotinus was reborn to the Western world. Ficino’s translation was accompanied by a long commentary in which he examined the close relationship between metaphysics and anthropology that informed Plotinus’s philosophy. Focusing on Ficino’s interpretation of Plotinus’s view of the soul and of human nature, this book excavates a fundamental chapter in the history of Platonic scholarship, one which was to inform later readings of the Enneads up until the nineteenth century. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in the history of Western philosophy, intellectual history, and book history.
| Author | : Stephen Gersh |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2019-04-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108415288 |
Using a series of case-studies from across European philosophical traditions, this book traces the influence of Neoplatonism over the centuries.
| Author | : Sylvain Delcomminette |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2020-07-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3110683970 |
This volume explores the tremendous influence of Plato’s Phaedrus on the philosophical, religious, scientific and literary discussions in the West. Ranging from Plato’s first readers, over the Church Fathers and the Platonic commentators, to Byzantine and Renaissance thinkers, the papers collected here introduce the reader to the first two millennia of the dialogue’s reception history. Thirteen contributions by both junior and established scholars study the engagement with the Phaedrus by such major figures as Aristotle, Galen, Origen, Clemens of Alexandria, Plotinus, Augustine, Proclus, Psellus, Ficino, Erasmus, and many others. Together, they cover the wide range of topics discussed in the dialogue: the value of myth and allegory, religion and theology, love and beauty, the soul and its immortality, teaching and learning, metaphysics and epistemology, rhetoric and dialectic, as well as the role and the limits of writing. By placing the dialogue in this broad perspective, the volume will appeal to readers interested in the Phaedrus itself, as well as to classicists, literary theorists, and historians of philosophy, science and religion concerned with the dialogue’s reception history and its main protagonists.
| Author | : Stephen Gersh |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 421 |
| Release | : 2014-09-15 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0521198496 |
Stephen Gersch charts the influence of the late Greek philosopher Proclus from his own lifetime down to the Renaissance (500-1600 CE).
| 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.
| Author | : Kevin Corrigan |
| Publisher | : Purdue University Press |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9781557532343 |
Plotinus was one of the most influential philosophers of the early Christian world, whose life was dedicated to the care of others and whose extensive treatises were recorded and preserved by his pupil and colleague Porphyry. This book provides a guide to reading and understanding Plotinus and covers many of the topics that he contemplated.
| Author | : S. Jayne |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2013-06-29 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9401585512 |
This book offers a radical reappraisal of the reputation of Plato in England between 1423 and 1603. Using many materials not hitherto available, including evidence of book publishing and book ownership, together with a comprehensive survey of allusions to Plato, the author shows that the English were far less interested in Plato than most historians have thought. Although the English, like the French, knew the `court' Plato as well as the `school' Plato, the English published only two works by Plato during this period, while the French published well over 100 editions, including several of the complete Works. In England allusions to Plato occur more often in prose writers such as Whetstone, Green, and Lodge, than in poets like Spenser and Chapman. Sidney did take his `Stella' from Plato, but most English allusions to Plato were taken not directly from Plato or from Ficino, but from other authors, especially Mornay, Nani-Mirabelli, Ricchieri, Steuco, and Tixier.
| Author | : Carl Séan O'Brien |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 589 |
| Release | : 2022-09-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1108530095 |
Platonic love is a concept that has profoundly shaped Western literature, philosophy and intellectual history for centuries. First developed in the Symposium and the Phaedrus, it was taken up by subsequent thinkers in antiquity, entered the theological debates of the Middle Ages, and played a key role in the reception of Neoplatonism and the etiquette of romantic relationships during the Italian Renaissance. In this wide-ranging reference work, a leading team of international specialists examines the Platonic distinction between higher and lower forms of eros, the role of the higher form in the ascent of the soul and the concept of Beauty. They also treat the possibilities for friendship and interpersonal love in a Platonic framework, as well as the relationship between love, rhetoric and wisdom. Subsequent developments are explored in Plutarch, Plotinus, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Eriugena, Aquinas, Ficino, della Mirandola, Castiglione and the contra amorem tradition.
| Author | : Marsilio Ficino |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Immortality |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Michael J. B. Allen |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 536 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9789004118553 |
This volume consists of 21 essays on Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus-priest who was the architect of Renaissance Platonism. They cast fascinating new light on his theology, philosophy, and psychology as well as on his influence and sources.
