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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... soul to its heav- enly origins . However , when configured in a human process of loving , the aspirant is frustrated by the lower faculties of his soul and their descend- ing affinities to physical forms . For Marsilio Ficino in ...
... soul to its heav- enly origins . However , when configured in a human process of loving , the aspirant is frustrated by the lower faculties of his soul and their descend- ing affinities to physical forms . For Marsilio Ficino in ...
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... soul governs the human body . Insofar as a universal design is manifest in the world , the gods must exist . In Hellenica ( III.1.17 ) , he defends the importance of ritual sacrifices and divine worship as means to make the gods ' will ...
... soul governs the human body . Insofar as a universal design is manifest in the world , the gods must exist . In Hellenica ( III.1.17 ) , he defends the importance of ritual sacrifices and divine worship as means to make the gods ' will ...
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... soul , " undifferentiated and coequal with the gods , disciplining a " lower soul , " dif- ferentiated from the gods and " imprisoned in the body . " The upper soul possessed the intuitive aspiration to ascend to its primary ...
... soul , " undifferentiated and coequal with the gods , disciplining a " lower soul , " dif- ferentiated from the gods and " imprisoned in the body . " The upper soul possessed the intuitive aspiration to ascend to its primary ...
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... Soul . The souls of men , seeing their image in the mirror of Dionysius as it were , have entered into that realm in a leap downward from the Supreme : yet even they are not cut off from their origins , from the divine Intellect ; it is ...
... Soul . The souls of men , seeing their image in the mirror of Dionysius as it were , have entered into that realm in a leap downward from the Supreme : yet even they are not cut off from their origins , from the divine Intellect ; it is ...
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... soul , is the most reliable means to know one's fate and that aspect of the divine within , which they associated with the ideal of human per- fection . But is self - knowledge ultimately possible ? Heraclitus argues that the world ...
... soul , is the most reliable means to know one's fate and that aspect of the divine within , which they associated with the ideal of human per- fection . But is self - knowledge ultimately possible ? Heraclitus argues that the world ...
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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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