Re-evaluating Pico : Aristotelianism, Kabbalism, and Platonism in the philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola / Sophia Howlett.
Howlett, Sophia, author.
2021
B785.P54
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Title
Re-evaluating Pico : Aristotelianism, Kabbalism, and Platonism in the philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola / Sophia Howlett.
Author
Howlett, Sophia, author.
ISBN
9783030595814 (electronic bk.)
3030595811 (electronic bk.)
3030595803
9783030595807
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59581-4
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
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1 online resource
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10.1007/978-3-030-59581-4 doi
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B785.P54
Dewey Decimal Classification
195
Summary
This book offers a re-evaluation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the prominent Italian Renaissance philosopher and prince of Concord. It argues that Pico is part of a history of attempted concordance between philosophy and theology, reason and faith. His contribution is a syncretist theological philosophy based on Christianity, Platonism, Aristotelianism and Jewish Kabbalism. After an introduction, Chapter 2 discusses Picos career, his power-relations and his work, Chapters 3 and 4 place his three pillars of Platonism, Aristotelianism and Kabbalism in their historical context, examines shared histories, and introduces the scholars around Pico who contributed so much in each of these traditions (introducing, for example, Christian Kabbalism), including exploring Pico's complex relationship with Marsilio Ficino. Chapter 5 examines the problems of concordance within Picos cosmology and metaphysics, including the question of God and the role of the Intellect. Chapter 6 describes Picos exceptionalist version of the mystical ascent as an individualized ascetic experience. Pico eschews the contemporary desire to use a renewed christian thinking or christian-classical metaphysics to change the world (towards a Golden Age or a 'second coming') to present a personal path to God, with no return to the world. Dr Sophia Howlett is President of School for International Training (SIT), USA, and the author of Marsilio Ficino and His World (2016).
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Critical political theory and radical practice.
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Preface IntroductionA Contested SitePico's Contribution Chapter 1: Life and WorksFamily and educationThe rise and fall of a public lifeA private life?Pico's deathBuilding the mythWorks Chapter 2: Pico's Intellectual Context
Aristotle, Plato and Pico's SyncretismThe question of allegianceAristotelianismPlatonismHumanismSyncretismThe prisca theologia and mathematical philosophical-mysticism Chapter 3: The Third Pillar
Pico and KabbalismIntroduction to KabbalismThe History of KabbalismKey TextsPico and Kabbalism Chapter 4: Pico's UniverseGod as the Ein-SofGod's LoveThe Angelic MindThe Active IntellectPopulating the Angelic MindCelestial and natural worlds Chapter 5: The way homeMutability and self-fashioningOur anatomyImmortality of the soulAscentLove and beautyJacob's Ladder Conclusion.

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