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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... reason " was not based on virtue or ethical principles , but on the power of a god who must be obeyed.22 Oedi- pus ' terrible destiny is imposed upon him for the crimes of his parents and the curse on their ancestral house . In ...
... reason " was not based on virtue or ethical principles , but on the power of a god who must be obeyed.22 Oedi- pus ' terrible destiny is imposed upon him for the crimes of his parents and the curse on their ancestral house . In ...
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... reason as the prin- cipal means through which rational dialectics aspires to " the Good . " He identified the Good as the rational pursuit of knowledge and truth elevated to divine status as the cause of all that is right and beautiful ...
... reason as the prin- cipal means through which rational dialectics aspires to " the Good . " He identified the Good as the rational pursuit of knowledge and truth elevated to divine status as the cause of all that is right and beautiful ...
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... reason and virtue as finite powers that create an intellectual discipline over the human mind . The conscious control of reason over passion , logic over intuition , and virtue over vice aspires to an ideal state of tranquility through ...
... reason and virtue as finite powers that create an intellectual discipline over the human mind . The conscious control of reason over passion , logic over intuition , and virtue over vice aspires to an ideal state of tranquility through ...
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... reason and the desire for transcendence manifest by the intellect . Each myth offered a paradigm of how the human being should live in order to overcome the external vicissitudes and internal weaknesses that inhibit his proper mental ...
... reason and the desire for transcendence manifest by the intellect . Each myth offered a paradigm of how the human being should live in order to overcome the external vicissitudes and internal weaknesses that inhibit his proper mental ...
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... reason . As Lucretius observes : " Sisyphus also appears in this life before our eyes , a thirst to solicit from the people the lictor's rods and cruel axes , and always retiring defeated and full of gloom : for to solicit power , an ...
... reason . As Lucretius observes : " Sisyphus also appears in this life before our eyes , a thirst to solicit from the people the lictor's rods and cruel axes , and always retiring defeated and full of gloom : for to solicit power , an ...
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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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