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Marsilio Ficino and His World

Part of the Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-53946-5

ISBN: 978-1-137-53945-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Aug 28, 2016

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Chapter 1The Myth Reconsidered

Howlett, Sophia

Pages: 1 –32

[For almost 1000 years, the old Roman Empire was divided: between the East, centred on Constantinople, and the West. Both sides were heirs to classical (Roman and Greek) civilization, but East and West gradually went down different paths theologically, intellectually and culturally. The West went...
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Chapter 2A Sense of Mission

Howlett, Sophia

Pages: 33 –68

[Ficino had a mission. From here in the twentieth century, a mission to revive Plato seems like an ‘ivory tower’ project, exactly the type of research we might query when funds run low at a university. Where is the impact on society or real-world implications? But Ficino’s mission was meant to...
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Chapter 3An Anatomy of the Universe

Howlett, Sophia

Pages: 69 –99

[Ficino’s vision is of a universe held together by love. Love is the energy or circuitus spiritualis that binds everything together and connects it to God. This love is a combination of Christian love (agape and caritas) and Platonic love (eros). It comes from God and is reflected back to Him by...
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Chapter 4The Microcosm

Howlett, Sophia

Pages: 101 –133

[In Ficino’s vision, we are a microcosm of the universe. We are bound to it by a ‘holy pact’. The little world of our inner selves is a mirror reflection in minutiae of the larger self of our universe.s To put it another way, just as the macrocosm is an expression, through a series of...
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Chapter 5The Second Creation

Howlett, Sophia

Pages: 135 –163

[Ficino’s mission, the original aim of the Platonic revival, was not simply to create a fusion of the Platonic and Christian traditions. It is also to transfigure us, and then, through our agency, achieve a renovatio of our world. The Phaedran Charioteer drives his chariot back towards the arch...
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Chapter 6A Short History of Impact

Howlett, Sophia

Pages: 165 –200

[The Platonic revival spread across Europe and across a variety of ‘interest groups’ for the next 300 years. Indirectly its influence is ongoing, as we still meet Ficino through those he inspired or influenced. It did not bring about the great, immediate ‘change’ that Ficino may have desired, but...

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