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Philosophy in Neo-Platonic Mode

Philosophy in Neo-Platonic Mode. Neo-Platonists. Marsilio Ficino Pico della Mirandola Pico's Hebrew tutor Johanan ben Isaac Alemanno. Influential Books of Ficino. Commentary on Plato’s Symposiusm (Latin then popular in Italian, French, etc.)

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Philosophy in Neo-Platonic Mode

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  1. Philosophy in Neo-Platonic Mode

  2. Neo-Platonists • Marsilio Ficino • Pico della Mirandola • Pico's Hebrew tutorJohanan ben Isaac Alemanno

  3. Influential Books of Ficino • Commentary on Plato’s Symposiusm (Latin then popular in Italian, French, etc.) • Works of Plato, 1484 (Full Latin translation from original Greek texts) • Platonic Theology (Reconciles Christianity with Platonic philosophy), 1474 • Translation of Hermetic writings • Letters (ex. to Lorenzo on Law and Justice)

  4. Ancient Authors • Plato (4th c. B.C.E.)-records conversations of Socrates • Plotinus (2nd c. C.E.)

  5. Florentine Circle in Neo-Platonic Mode • Ruling family: Cosimo de’ Medici, Piero de’ Medici, and Lorenzo de’ Medici • Poet Poliziano, as well as Lorenzo • Artists Botticelli, Michelangelo

  6. Other Italian Neo-Platonists • Cardinal Pietro Bembo (also portrayed in Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier) • Vittoria Colonna, Poet, friend of Michelangelo

  7. Neo-Platonic Idea of Beauty • Divine beauty is higher than physical beauty. • Soul seeks to ascend by contemplating physical beauty

  8. Neo-Platonic Idea of Love • Love of Earthly Venus-physical love leading to procreation • Love of Heavenly Venus-spiritual love leading to creativity • One may love physical beauty and rise through that love to love of spiritual beauty • Highest love contemplates the Intellectual and Moral Virtues, that is WISDOM

  9. Neo-Platonic Idea of Free Will • In Pico’s Oration, Adam was created with free will. • Adam has no fixed abode and no fixed nature • Adam can descend to the animal level or ascend to the angelic level (ascending up Jacob’s ladder) • Free choice is the main human characteristic

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