The Myth of Sisyphus: Renaissance Theories of Human PerfectibilityFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2007 - 614 էջ The myth of Sisyphus symbolizes the idealization of human excellence as a perpetual process of becoming over the impossibility of absolute achievement. In Stoic philosophy, the writing of the Early Church Fathers, and in its allegorical interpretations in medieval and renaissance mythologies, Sisyphus is the archetypal model of human perfectibility. This Sisyphean archetype is a principal theme in renaissance theories of astral magic in the works of Pico, Ficino, Reuchlin, Paracelsus, Agrippa, and Dee. Erasmus, Melanchthon, and Ascham, and in utopian thought from More to Bacon. Sisyphus illuminates the sacred mysteries of life in the works of Philo Judaeus, Plato, Nicholas Cusanus, and Ficino; the spiritual and sensual contraries of love in the dialogues of Leone Ebreo, Bembo, and Bruno; and the tribulations of the unrequited lover in the works of Petrarch, Ronsard, and Sidney. |
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Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility Elliott M. Simon. although classical myth was desanctified as a conception of theology , myth was considered a narrative of " hidden wisdom , " a philosophia moralis that illuminated the ...
Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility Elliott M. Simon. although classical myth was desanctified as a conception of theology , myth was considered a narrative of " hidden wisdom , " a philosophia moralis that illuminated the ...
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Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility Elliott M. Simon. 1 his intellect and intuitive powers to study nature and transform its mutable forms into its perfected archetype . Although nature appears to teach all things to human ...
Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility Elliott M. Simon. 1 his intellect and intuitive powers to study nature and transform its mutable forms into its perfected archetype . Although nature appears to teach all things to human ...
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Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility Elliott M. Simon. messianic role of refashioning the human being's individual and social identities . The utopianist attempts to sustain the elusive condition of uni- versality as the ...
Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility Elliott M. Simon. messianic role of refashioning the human being's individual and social identities . The utopianist attempts to sustain the elusive condition of uni- versality as the ...
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Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility Elliott M. Simon. burden of relativistic inventions , circumstantial politics , and the necessary triumph of pragmatics . Altruistic service is frustrated by the desire for per- sonal fame and ...
Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility Elliott M. Simon. burden of relativistic inventions , circumstantial politics , and the necessary triumph of pragmatics . Altruistic service is frustrated by the desire for per- sonal fame and ...
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Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility Elliott M. Simon. Eleusinian mysteries of regeneration , human beings aspire to an ideal state of beatitude , eudaimonia , through their imitation of ritual actions that sym- bolize the ...
Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility Elliott M. Simon. Eleusinian mysteries of regeneration , human beings aspire to an ideal state of beatitude , eudaimonia , through their imitation of ritual actions that sym- bolize the ...
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The Patristic Sisyphus | 67 |
Sisyphus in Medieval and Renaissance Mythography | 86 |
Sisyphus as Astral Magician | 110 |
Sisyphus as Humanist | 136 |
Sisyphus as Lover | 193 |
Sisyphus as Hero | 313 |
Notes | 427 |
Bibliography | 544 |
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