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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... thought and social manners , Baldassare Cas- tiglione's courtier - hero in // libro del cortegiano [ The Book of the Courtier ] aspires to an inward civility of mind and a refined artistic sensibility to achieve an ideal of social ...
... thought and social manners , Baldassare Cas- tiglione's courtier - hero in // libro del cortegiano [ The Book of the Courtier ] aspires to an inward civility of mind and a refined artistic sensibility to achieve an ideal of social ...
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... thought and behavior . Plato identified " divinity " as the perfect order and harmony in the universe , which determined that everything and everyone was in its proper place.30 However , Plato's Socrates treated moral values as ...
... thought and behavior . Plato identified " divinity " as the perfect order and harmony in the universe , which determined that everything and everyone was in its proper place.30 However , Plato's Socrates treated moral values as ...
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... thought processes and empow- ered them to refashion human nature to seek the beata vita [ the good life ] though the union of reason and virtue . Generally speaking , the Stoics addressed the principal paradox of striving for ...
... thought processes and empow- ered them to refashion human nature to seek the beata vita [ the good life ] though the union of reason and virtue . Generally speaking , the Stoics addressed the principal paradox of striving for ...
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... thought process . For Epictetus , all positive and negative experiences were equal and unified . It was important for him to believe that human beings no longer needed to blame the gods or other humans for the monstrousness of their ...
... thought process . For Epictetus , all positive and negative experiences were equal and unified . It was important for him to believe that human beings no longer needed to blame the gods or other humans for the monstrousness of their ...
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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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