Marsilio Ficino as Reader of Plotinus: The Enneads Commentary by Stephen Gersh H

Description: Marsilio Ficino as Reader of Plotinus: The Enneads Commentary by Stephen Gersh This first complete study of Marsilio Ficinos Commentary on Plotinus, published in 1492, will serve as the definitive analysis of Ficinos late philosophy and also as an essential companion to Gershs edition-translation of the same work. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book represents the first ever systematic philosophical study of Marsilio Ficinos Commentary on Plotinus Enneads (first published in Florence, 1492), this work of Ficino being arguably as definitive for the Florentine thinkers later work as the Platonic Theology was for his earlier. Publication of the present study uniquely illuminates the extent to which Plotinus had always been the crucial influence over Ficinos revolutionary projects of introducing Platonic thought based on original Greek sources to western Europe, correcting certain features of late medieval and Renaissance Aristotelianism, and laying the foundations of a new Christian Platonism. The study can be read both as an independent introduction to Ficinos later philosophy and as the complement to the first modern edition and translation of the Commentary on the Enneads itself also by Stephen Gersh (I Tatti Renaissance Library, 2017-). Author Biography Stephen Gersh, Litt. D (2019), Cambridge University, former Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Medieval Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, has published many books on ancient, medieval, and modern philosophy including From Iamblichus to Eriugena (Brill, 1978). Table of Contents AcknowledgementsCitations of the Plotinus CommentaryPrefaceGeneral Introduction: The Commentary on Plotinus Enneads 1 Religious Philosophy or Philosophical Religion 2 Plotinus Disclosure of Platos Mysteries 3 The Correction of Peripateticism 4 The Exegetical Approach to the Enneads 5 The Place of the Plotinus Commentary in Ficinos Work 6 The Place of the Commentary in the Earlier "Plotinian" TraditionExcursus 0: The Problem of Ficinos exhortatioPart 1: Analogy and Trinity1 Plotinus and Christianity 1.1 The Christian Context 1.2 The Three Primary Substances: Terminology 1.3 The Heretical Errors2 Ficinos Logic of Analogy 2.1 The Platonic Genera and Their Mysteries 2.2 The Analogy between Platonic Genera and Peripatetic Categories 2.3 Ficino and Analogy 2.4 Ratio and AnalogyExcursus 2: Substance and Quality x2.1 Substance x2.2 Quality3 The Trinitarian Analogue 3.1 Ficino, Plotinus, and Aquinas on the Trinity 3.2 The "Plotinian" TrinityPart 2: From Ontology to Agathology4 The Structure of Soul 4.1 Importance of the Commentary on Ennead I 4.2 Soul and Animate Being 4.3 From Microcosm to Macrocosm5 The Unembodied Soul 5.1 The Higher Soul in the Commentary on Ennead I 5.2 Summary of Ficinos Doctrine of Soul 5.3 The Higher Soul in the Commentary on Ennead IV6 The Embodied Soul 6.1 The Embodied Soul in the Commentary on Ennead IV7 Transmigration and Embodiment 7.1 Ficino against Transmigration 7.2 Ficino and Origen8 Sensation 8.1 General Theory of Sensation 8.2 Ficinos Innovations 8.3 Vision9 Intellect and Ideas 9.1 Intellect and Intellectual Soul 9.2 Analogies of Light 9.3 The Divine "Splendour" and "Figure" 9.4 Intellects Relation to the Ideas 9.5 The Relation of Ideas to One Another 9.6 The Range of Ideas 9.7 The Distinction between Intellect and the Intelligible 9.8 Agent and Possible Intellect 9.9 The Distinction between Discursive and Non-discursive Thinking 9.10 Ideas, Formulae, and Seminal Reason-Principles 9.11 The Temporalization of the Ideas 9.12 Intellects Relation to Number10 Souls Choice between Good and Evil 10.1 The Good 10.2 The Multiplicity of Goods 10.3 The (Sub-) Contrariety of Good and Evil 10.4 The Souls Choice: Ficino between Plotinus and Augustine11 The Threefold Reversion 11.1 Return and Triplicity 11.2 The Triadic Preamble to Ennead I. 3 11.3 The Commentary Proper12 Ascent to Beauty 12.1 Irradiation of Beauty: lumen and color 12.2 The Divine Nature of Beauty: lumen 12.3 Reception of Beauty: splendor13 Ascent to the One and the Good 13.1 Presence 13.2 Futurity 13.3 Ascent by WillExcursus II: Daemons and Soul xII.1 Internal and External Daemons xII.2 Plotinus DaemonPART 3: Matter, Reason, Spirit14 Matter 14.1 Negative and Affirmative Approaches 14.2 The Structure of the Commentary on Ennead II. 4 14.3 Quantity 14.4 Dimensionality 14.5 Privation 14.6 InfinityExcursus 14: Potency and Act x14.1 The Structure of the Commentary on Ennead II. 5 x14.2 Potency and Act x14.3 The Metaphysical Continuum of Potency and Act x14.4 The Intelligible World x14.5 Potency and Act in Relation to Soul x14.6 The Sensible World x14.7 The Relation of Primal Matter to Being-in-Potency and Being-in-Act15 Ratio 15.1 The Primal Ratio in Christianity 15.2 The Primal Ratio in PlotinusExcursus 15: Non-formal Ratio x15.1 Ratio as Principle of Form x15.2 Ratio between the Real and the Nominal x15.3 Ratio above and below Form16 Spirit 16.1 Heaven, Fire, and Spirit 16.2 Heaven as Macrocosm 16.3 Fire as Macrocosm 16.4 Spirit as Macrocosm and Microcosm 16.5 ConspirationConclusionBibliography Details ISBN9004701117 Author Stephen Gersh Publisher Brill Series History of Metaphysics: Ancient, Medieval, Modern Year 2024 ISBN-13 9789004701113 Format Hardcover Imprint Brill Series Number 5 Place of Publication Leiden Country of Publication Netherlands Alternative 9789004701892 Audience Professional & Vocational DEWEY 186.4 Pages 560 Publication Date 2024-07-25 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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