Platonic Theology is the visionary and philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This work, translated into English for the first time, is a key to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.
Kenney focuses especially on Plotinus's novel concept of deity, arguing that it constitutes a type of mystical monotheism based upon an ultimate and inclusive divine One beyond description or discursive knowledge.
""This book contains a careful, thorough, and where necessary skeptical as regards doubtful evidence (especially in the case of Plato and the Old Academy) of the beginnings in European thought of the negative or apophatic way of thinking ...
This is the first comprehensive monograph in English about Ioane Petrisi and his work of transposition of Proclus' Elements of Theology to the Georgian language."--Foreword, p. xi.
Renaissance Thought and Its Sources. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. Pays special attention to Platonism. ———. Studies in Renaissance Thought and Letters. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1956. Important essays on ...
This book presents a comprehensive study into Plato's theological doctrines, offering an important re-valuation of the status of Plato's gods and the relation between metaphysics and theology according to Plato.
This volume consists of 21 essays on Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus-priest who was the architect of Renaissance Platonism.
This book presents a philosophical position examined philosophically.
14 Cf. Johannes Wenck, De ignota litteratura, ed. Jasper Hopkins in Nicholas of Cusa's Debate with John Wenck. A Translation and an Appraisal of 'De ignota litteratura' and 'Apologia doctae ignorantiae' (Minneapolis: Banning Press, ...
Kenney focuses especially on Plotinus's novel concept of deity, arguing that it constitutes a type of mystical monotheism based upon an ultimate and inclusive divine One beyond description or discursive knowledge.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.