»De amore sive in convivium Platonis«, dessen Wirkungsgeschichte bis weit ins 17. Jahrhundert reicht, ist Nachdichtung und Platon-Kommentar in einem und eines der bedeutendsten philosophischen Werke der Renaissance. - Bei einem Bankett vorgeblich anlässlich von Platons Geburtstag stellen neun Gäste, allesamt bekannte Florentiner Gelehrte, ihre Auffassungen über die Liebe in wechselnden Reden vor, indem sie Platons »Symposion« in zeitgenössischer Neuakzentuierung paraphrasieren. Dabei wird die Lehre von amor / caritas zum spekulativen Ansatzpunkt für Erkenntnislehre, Theologie, Kosmologie, Ethik und Naturphilosophie. In das (...) Grundkonzept des »Symposion« trägt Ficino als neues Element die Konvergenz des Platonismus mit dem Christentum ein, wobei er den ›Eros‹ einerseits neuplatonisch in sinnliche und himmlische Liebe differenziert, andererseits den Liebesbegriff christlich dynamisiert und erweitert. Nicht nur, wie bei Platon, bewirkt der ›Eros‹ das Streben des Sinnlichen zum Höheren, auch umgekehrt richtet sich das erotische Bestreben des Göttlichen auf das Materielle. Und schließlich ist die Liebe das Moment, das alle Dualismen, Form und Materie, Gott und Universum, zusammenhält: Der Eros wird zur Chiffre des Hervorgangs und der Rückwendung alles Seienden in Relation zu Gott – eine Relation, deren irdisches Abbild die irdische Liebe ist. Ficinos Metaphysik, die für die Philosophie der Renaissance von fundamentaler Bedeutung ist, enthält gleichzeitig auch eine für die Geschichte der Ästhetik bedeutsame Theorie des Schönen: Liebe wird als Sehnsucht nach dem Schönen verstanden, der Mensch gelangt über die Schau der körperlichen Schönheit zur geistigen Schönheit und letztlich zur Erkenntnis der Ordnung der Ideen und des Universums. Ficinos neuplatonische »Ästhetik« ist weit entfernt von subjektivistischer Kunsttheorie, enthält aber bereits Ansätze zu einer Theorie des menschlichen Liebens und Wahrnehmens. (shrink)

Un circolo lucreziano -- Furor et voluptas -- Dio, anima, natura -- Virtú e fortuna -- Platonismo e repubblicanesimo -- Pietas et sapientia -- Poeti platonici -- De miseria hominis -- Misteri d'amore -- Del bello, o della grazia -- Immortalità e resurrezione -- Anima mundi -- Il mondo delle immagini -- Sui demoni -- Fatalia -- Medicina del corpo, medicina dell'anima -- Sul male -- Profezia -- Preghiera e sacrificio -- De Trinitate -- Lode al sole.

v. 1. Books I-IV. -- v. 2. Books V-VIII -- v. 3. Books IX-XI -- v. 4. Books XII-XIV -- v. 5. Books XV-XVI -- v. 6. Books XVII-XVIII.

The problems which troubled people's minds during the Italian Renaissance were much the same as today. In trying to cope with them, many deep thinking people turned to Marsilio Ficino for help. Through his letters he advised, encouraged, and occasionally reproved them. Fearlessly he expressed the truth and his wisdom influenced many of the finest Western minds. He numbered statesmen, popes, artists, scientists, and philosophers amongst his circle.

The problems that taxed the minds of people during the Renaissance were much the same as those confronting us today. In their perplexity many deep-thinking people sought the advice of Marsilio Ficino, the leader of the Platonic Academy in Florence, and through his letters he advised them, encouraged them, and sometimes reproved them. Ficino was utterly fearless in expressing what he knew to be true. His letters cover the widest range of topics, mixing philosophy and humor, compassion and advice, and (...) offering a profound glimpse into the soul of the Renaissance. This is the only accessible collection of Ficino's writings available in English. (shrink)

This volume contains Ficino’s extended analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus, which he explicates as a meditation on “beauty in all its forms” and a ...

-- volume 4. Ennead III, Part 1 (Books I-IV) -- volume 5. Ennead III, part 2 (Books V-IX) and Ennead IV.

A re-publication of the whole of the work of Marsilio Ficino, being an impossibility, Kristeller1has presented students with a monumentalSupplementum Ficinianum, in which he brings together everything that was not included in the Basle edition, which he takes for his basis, everything, that is to say, that he has been able to trace in the course of a very thorough search made in numerous Italian and foreign libraries. In a learned introduction there are prefixed to the edition three indexes, of (...) the codices, editions, and works of Ficino, and with each work is given a concise account of its origin, purpose, and fortune in the world. There follows the collection of Ficino's writings, some unpublished, and some having already been published sporadically, but omitted from the Basle edition. The final items are two indexes of proper names quoted in the Basle edition and in theSupplementumrespectively. (shrink)

ABSTRACT This article analyzes a polemic of Italian Humanism around Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). In that period, intellectuals such as Cristoforo Landino (1424-1498) and Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) interpreted Dante’s writing through the platonic prism of the Phaedrus, that is, as someone who was granted the grace to contemplate the divine and the power to describe it. Decades earlier, however, Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406) and Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444) had already attributed to Dante the merit of focusing on formal studies and, with that, (...) being able to develop expressive artifices to his poetry on its own. For the analysis of the different readings, excerpts in which Dante gives evidence of his path and intellectual maturity will be observed, as well as those in which it is possible to observe the poet’s role in the dissemination of formal knowledge in line with his ethical values. (shrink)

O presente artigo objetiva, ao revisitar a obra Oratio de hominis dignitate composta pelo humanista renascentista Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, um duplo intento: sustentar que as noções de dignidade e liberdade, presentes nessa obra, se distanciam do pensamento cristão tradicional, de modo crítico, justamente porque derivam de uma leitura filosófica da teologia cristã da criação; e mostrar que a conclusão a respeito da noção de liberdade apresentada por Sartre no pensamento contemporâneo pode ser encontrada de modo germinal, guardada as devidas (...) proporções, na leitura piquiana da criação. Para tanto, exporemos uma breve retomada do contexto histórico-filosófico que permitiu ao filósofo engendrar a Oratio bem como suas pretensões para com essa obra; falaremos, em um segundo momento, como o platonismo religioso de Marsílio Ficino, principal matriz teórica a partir do qual os conceitos de dignidade e de liberdade foram modulados, foi recebido e desenvolvido no pensamento de Pico; e como as influências e as rupturas com pensamento de Ficino e a leitura filosófica da teologia cristã da criação são importantes para recolocar os conceitos de dignidade e de liberdade, permitindo assim entrever, por meio deles, semelhanças com o pensamento satreano. (shrink)

Die unendlichen Vermogen des menschlichen Geistes dokumentierten sich fuer den Wiederbegruender der Platonischen Akademie in Florenz, Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) vor allem in weltgestaltenden Handlungen und fuehrten ihn so zur These von der Gottlichkeit des Menschen. Anlaalich des 500. Todestages des Renaissancephilosophen werden die Grundlagen und praktischen Konsequenzen dieses bis heute nachwirkenden Menschenbildes aus den unterschiedlichsten Blickwinkeln diskutiert. Mit Beitragen von: Jorg Hardy, Udo Reinhold Jeck, Hubert Benz, Achim Wurm, Detlef Thiel, Orrin F. Summerell, Matthias Bloch, Alexander F. Lohner, Burkhard (...) Mojsisch. (shrink)

El humanismo y la filosofía en el Renacimiento recuperan el ideal de la_ theologia poetica_, esto es, de un saber en el que se ocultaban, bajo un velo alegórico, verdades esenciales de naturaleza místico-religiosa. El poeta es, entonces, un filósofo teólogo, parte esencial de una tradición antigua que sirvió a los fines de la verdadera fe. En este sentido, la restauración del lugar privilegiado de la poética por parte de los humanistas clásicos fue funcional a la filosofía de Marsilio Ficino, (...) un neoplatónico florentino del siglo XV, quien reconocerá en la figura de Orfeo al poeta teólogo por excelencia. Así, a juicio de Ficino, las obras de los poetas revelan la divinidad de manera alegórica bajo la forma de una_ teología poética,_ abriendo la posibilidad de una revelación ontológica de carácter profético. El objetivo del artículo es examinar el papel del furor divino en el pensamiento de Marsilio Ficino en relación con la experiencia mística y la concepción de teología poética. (shrink)

Cet article est une comparaison de certaines affirmations ontologiques sur la nature de la matière première chez le platonicien de la Renaissance Marsilio Ficino et sur la nature de l’espace chez Frane Petrić, platonicien du XVIème siècle issu de la ville de Cres. J’y soutiens que les philosophies naturelles des deux platoniciens se ressemblent à deux égards, notamment en ce qui concerne le statut ontologique du substrat le plus fondamental du monde matériel. D’abord, Ficino comme Petrić soutiennent l’existence fondamentale de (...) la matière et de l’espace. Deuxièmement, les deux philosophes attribuent la « priorité ontologique » à la matière et à l’espace sur ce qui est considéré comme qualités éphémères du monde materiel. (shrink)

Esse artigo pretende investigar a questão do amor intelectual na tradição platônicada Renascença, destacando a dimensão filosófica da interpretação do amor em Marsilio Ficino e Giordano Bruno.

Orphei ad Musaeum -- Orphei hymni -- Procli Lycii philosophi hymni -- Magica dicta magorum ex Zoroastre.

Um dos autores mais importantes do Renascimento é o italiano Marsílio Ficino. Deixando de lado os estudos filosóficos baseados em Aristóteles e Lucrécio, voltou-se com afã a Platão. Em seu Comentário ao Banquete de Platão, ele retoma o filósofo grego e, deixando-se influenciar também pela Ética aristotélica, por Cícero, Agostinho e os poetas italianos, entre outros, produz uma obra ainda capaz de despertar admiração e surpresa no leitor contemporâneo.