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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... ultimate detri- ment . In order to overcome the inevitable frustration of failed aspirations and the feelings of despair that one's labors merely constitute a duration of meaningless endeavors , the quest for human perfectibility must ...
... ultimate detri- ment . In order to overcome the inevitable frustration of failed aspirations and the feelings of despair that one's labors merely constitute a duration of meaningless endeavors , the quest for human perfectibility must ...
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... ultimate triumph of the human will over the vicissitudes of life . Reading Greek and Roman versions of the myth in terms of the Stoic moral philosophy of Epictetus , Zeno of Citium , Cleanthes of Assos , Chry- sippus of Soli , Cicero ...
... ultimate triumph of the human will over the vicissitudes of life . Reading Greek and Roman versions of the myth in terms of the Stoic moral philosophy of Epictetus , Zeno of Citium , Cleanthes of Assos , Chry- sippus of Soli , Cicero ...
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... ultimate revelation of a transcen- dent state of existence . Myth identifies the relationships between the sum of all the forces that constitute reality and the sum of all the imaginative energies which human beings must summon to ...
... ultimate revelation of a transcen- dent state of existence . Myth identifies the relationships between the sum of all the forces that constitute reality and the sum of all the imaginative energies which human beings must summon to ...
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... ultimate aspirations to conquer the rock , to become a coequal with the gods , and to achieve his transcendent excellence and reach the summit . The mountain is more than a location for Sisyphus ' confrontation with divine powers . 18 ...
... ultimate aspirations to conquer the rock , to become a coequal with the gods , and to achieve his transcendent excellence and reach the summit . The mountain is more than a location for Sisyphus ' confrontation with divine powers . 18 ...
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... ultimate good . In Greek myth , each god performed a par- ticular task to perfection , and the gods must be respected not because they are morally good , but because they are omnipotent . In the competitive and violent world of myth ...
... ultimate good . In Greek myth , each god performed a par- ticular task to perfection , and the gods must be respected not because they are morally good , but because they are omnipotent . In the competitive and violent world of myth ...
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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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