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Respublica noumenon: Kant, Rousseau, and Plato's Republic
Abstract This article examines the philosophical sources for Kant's interpretation of Plato's Republic and its impact on his conception of the ideal state. I argue that Kant's knowledge of Plato was not derived from Plato's writings, but from secondary accounts.
Michael Kryluk
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Pervivencias del neoplatonismo en la poesía de Luis de Góngora. El ciclo a los marqueses de Ayamonte
ResumenEl ciclo de poemas que, entre 1606 y 1607, Luis de Góngora dedica a los marqueses de Ayamonte presenta una serie de elementos cuyo origen y lógica productiva puede ras-trearse en la filosofía neoplatónica que tanta difusión conoció en el ...
Ginés Torres Salinas
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Education towards a reasonable humanism
Abstract Education is twice over concerned with human nature, most extensively as it is presupposed in the pursuit of diverse aims, and more specifically, as understanding it and applying such understanding are themselves made objects of study and teaching. The latter was a principal concern of ancient, renaissance and enlightenment humanists.
John Haldane
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Bridging Real and Virtual: A Spiritual Challenge
The question of how to bridge virtuality and reality intensified in 2016 with the release of several consumer products. The article begins by reviewing two anxieties about virtual reality raised at a 1999 conference. To address these anxieties, the paper
Heim, Michael R.
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Ghirlandaio, Ficino and Hermes Trismegistus: the Prisca Theologia in the Tornabuoni Frescoes [PDF]
The study offers a Neoplatonic reading of certain iconographic elements of Domenico Ghirlandaio’s frescoes in the Tornabuoni Chapel in Florence. It focuses on the nude figure sitting on the steps in the “Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple” as well ...
Agata Anna Chrzanowska
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The Harmonious Soul and the Defence of Music in Sixteenth‐Century England
Abstract This article examines the history of the concept of the soul as a harmony—as opposed to merely being like a harmony—in sixteenth‐century England, demonstrating how debates over music's morality in sixteenth‐century England were a catalyst for theorising an increasing affinity between music and the soul.
Katherine Butler
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The objective character of virtues in Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology [PDF]
Marsilio Ficino did not write a methodical, complete treatise on ethics, but the ethical questions are discussed in most of his writings, including his opus magnum entitled Theologia Platonica.
Papiernik, Joanna
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The Gaze of the Soul and of the Angel in the Renaissance Philosophy of Marsilio Ficino
The Renaissance rediscovered the soul as the focus of the universe. Marsilio Ficino calls the soul the “bond of the world” (copula mundi), because it connects the earth and the heaven, immanence and transcendence, time and eternity.
Marko Uršič
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ABSTRACT This article deals with the use of language in historiography and with this usage's implications for the conception of history and the historiographical operation/practice. Whereas theorists of “presence” believe that “presence” and “reality” can be grasped in spoken language and written texts, thus generally considering them as a medium that ...
LUIGI ALONZI
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La Favola d’ Orfeo (1480) de Ángelo Poliziano es uno de los escritos literarios más ricos y enigmáticos del Renacimiento, especialmente en lo que respecta al debate que ha suscitado entre los especialistas a la hora de discernir su trasfondo alegórico ...
Daniel Ortiz Pereira
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