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Plato’s Third Eye
Studies in Marsilio Ficino’s Metaphysics and its Sources
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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- I The absent angel in Ficino’s philosophy
- II Ficino’s lecture on the Good?
- III The Sibyl in Ficino’s oaktree
- IV Cosmogony and love: the role of Phaedrus in Ficino’s Symposium Commentary
- V Two commentaries on the Phaedrus: Ficino’s indebtedness to Hermias
- VI Ficino’s Hermias translation and a new apologue
- VII Marsilio Ficino on Plato’s Pythagorean eye
- VIII Ficino’s theory of the five substances and the Neoplatonists’ Parmenides
- IX Marsilio Ficino on Plato, the Neoplatonists and the Christian doctrine of the Trinity
- X The second Ficino-Pico controversy: Parmenidean poetry, eristic and the One
- XI Marsilio Ficino’s interpretation of Plato’s Timaeus and its myth of the Demiurge
- XII Marsilio Ficino, Hermes Trismegistus and the Corpus Hermeticum
- XIII Homo ad zodiacum: Marsilio Ficino and the Boethian Hercules
- XIV Summoning Plotinus: Ficino, smoke, and the strangled chickens
- XV The soul as rhapsode: Marsilio Ficino’s interpretation of Plato’s Ion
- Addenda & Corrigenda
- Index