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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... transcendent individual and social excellence without the consolation of achievement . THE LIFELONG QUEST TO ESTABLISH A TRANSCENDENT SIGNIFICANCE The myth of Sisyphus is the most poignant illustration of the quest for perfectibility ...
... transcendent individual and social excellence without the consolation of achievement . THE LIFELONG QUEST TO ESTABLISH A TRANSCENDENT SIGNIFICANCE The myth of Sisyphus is the most poignant illustration of the quest for perfectibility ...
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... transcendence . Alexander Ross in Mystagogus Poeticus , however , transforms the myth of Sisyphus into an allegory ... transcendent state of a " good life . " The Sisyphean aspirant as magus uses 1 his intellect and intuitive powers to ...
... transcendence . Alexander Ross in Mystagogus Poeticus , however , transforms the myth of Sisyphus into an allegory ... transcendent state of a " good life . " The Sisyphean aspirant as magus uses 1 his intellect and intuitive powers to ...
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... transcendence , it also dehumanizes his nature with its insistence on an absolute conformity to abstract principles that ... transcendent moral and spiritual condition by approximations , which will be frustrated when 18 THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS.
... transcendence , it also dehumanizes his nature with its insistence on an absolute conformity to abstract principles that ... transcendent moral and spiritual condition by approximations , which will be frustrated when 18 THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS.
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... transcendent signifi- cation for their relationship with the beautiful lady to achieve a perfect wholeness , which ... transcendence of divine power in nature risks becoming a competitor with the gods as if the process of his ascending ...
... transcendent signifi- cation for their relationship with the beautiful lady to achieve a perfect wholeness , which ... transcendence of divine power in nature risks becoming a competitor with the gods as if the process of his ascending ...
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... transcendent form.26 The survival of Euhemeristic myth illustrates how deeply it is embedded in the human psyche as the symbolic assertion of human perfectibility despite the ambiguities of human qua divine causality.27 The attribution ...
... transcendent form.26 The survival of Euhemeristic myth illustrates how deeply it is embedded in the human psyche as the symbolic assertion of human perfectibility despite the ambiguities of human qua divine causality.27 The attribution ...
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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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