The Renaissance of Plotinus: The Soul and Human Nature in Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the Enneads

ISBN-13: 9780367512545 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 228 str.

Opis

Plotinus (204/5-270 C.E.) is a central figure in the history of Western 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.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Birth of the Latin Plotinus  2. Rescuing Aristotle’s Soul I: Plotinus and Alexander of Aphrodisias  3. Rescuing Aristotle’s Soul II: Plotinus and the Averroistic Intellect  4. The Imagination at Work: Perceiving, Remembering and Giving Birth  5. Daemons and Stars

O autorze

Anna Corrias is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the University of Toronto, Canada, where she works on the reception of late ancient philosophy in the early modern period, with a special focus on the Platonic tradition.