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Darrera modificació: 2021-06-03
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Voss, Angela, "Diligentia et divina sorte: Oracular Intelligence in Marsilio Ficino's Astral Magic", dins: Hedesan, Georgiana D. - Rudbøg, Tim (eds.), Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present, Berlín, Springer, 2021, pp. 33-62.
- Resum
- This chapter discusses the Florentine thinker Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), who is usually credited for his attempt to revive the Platonic tradition and introduce esoteric forms of knowledge, such as natural magic, into intellectual discourse. Yet narratives of Ficino often describe him as hesitant and perhaps unaware of his own audaciousness. By focusing on De vita coelitus comparanda, part of his medico-magical treatise Three Books on Life (1489), this paper recasts Ficino as a consciously innovative thinker who affirmed the ability of the soul to be deified through magical-theurgical practice. By upholding the concept of oracular intelligence, Ficino maintained that astral magic could give prophetic insight. Implicitly, his vision transcended the Scholastic distinction between the “natural” and “supernatural” domains, asserting a continuum between humans and divinity.
- Matèries
- Màgia - Màgia natural
Màgia - Màgia astrològica
- URL
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-0 ...
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