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Re-evaluating Pico

Part of the Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-59581-4

ISBN: 978-3-030-59580-7

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Dec 2, 2020

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Chapter 1Introduction

Howlett, Sophia

Pages: 1 –9

[This book offers four major re-evaluations of Pico: that his work is in the main coherent and contiguous; that it is based, alongside his Christianity, on three principle traditions: Aristotelianism, Platonism, and Jewish Kabbalism; his attempt at concordance between these three pillars is...
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Chapter 2Life and Works

Howlett, Sophia

Pages: 11 –51

[This chapter offers an introduction to Pico, his milieu and his work. Pico died young leaving a small body of work. Both life and work were fashioned by himself and his heirs as unique. He is the golden youth who became St. Pico, the gentleman-philosopher, and more recently, the young ‘modern’...
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Chapter 3Pico’s Intellectual Foundations: Aristotelianism, Platonism, and Pico’s Syncretism

Howlett, Sophia

Pages: 53 –90

[Aristotelianism or more specifically Aristotelian logic and theory of causality provide Pico’s primary mode of argumentation. Pico applies this logic to both the act of concordance (to draw together the disparate threads of different traditions), and his attempts to describe the deep structure....
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Chapter 4The Third Pillar: Pico and Kabbalism

Howlett, Sophia

Pages: 91 –134

[Kabbalism is the third pillar of Pico’s approach. In it he found the Christian message and classical philosophy, particularly the Platonic tradition, re-presented within the exceptionalism of a direct, secret revelation hidden for centuries and now available through Pico. He was the first...
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Chapter 5Pico’s Universe

Howlett, Sophia

Pages: 135 –169

[Pico’s cosmology and metaphysics are primarily Christian Platonic but with attempted concordance at critical points with Aristotelianism and Kabbalism. Ficino’s universe provides a useful starting point and differences from Ficino are where Pico’s unique contribution is seen: his preference for...
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Chapter 6The Way Home

Howlett, Sophia

Pages: 171 –208

[Pico the mystic searches for a way to God. Pico offers a form of Platonic henosis, mergence with the One, and Aristotelian noesis, mergence with the Active Intellect, and combines with the rising of the shekinah to the revealed God, even to the darkness of Pseudo-Dionysius’ First Father. Pico’s...
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Chapter 7Conclusion

Howlett, Sophia

Pages: 209 –213

[Pico’s vision of a solitary journey to God, without return, sets him apart from contemporaries whether Ficino’s Golden Wits searching for the new Golden Age or Savonarola’s piagnoni preparing for communal end-time. He proposes a theological philosophy based on exceptionalism and the mystical...

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