The Myth of Sisyphus: Renaissance Theories of Human PerfectibilityFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2007 - 614 עמודים The myth of Sisyphus symbolizes the idealization of human excellence as a perpetual process of becoming over the impossibility of absolute achievement. In Stoic philosophy, the writing of the Early Church Fathers, and in its allegorical interpretations in medieval and renaissance mythologies, Sisyphus is the archetypal model of human perfectibility. This Sisyphean archetype is a principal theme in renaissance theories of astral magic in the works of Pico, Ficino, Reuchlin, Paracelsus, Agrippa, and Dee. Erasmus, Melanchthon, and Ascham, and in utopian thought from More to Bacon. Sisyphus illuminates the sacred mysteries of life in the works of Philo Judaeus, Plato, Nicholas Cusanus, and Ficino; the spiritual and sensual contraries of love in the dialogues of Leone Ebreo, Bembo, and Bruno; and the tribulations of the unrequited lover in the works of Petrarch, Ronsard, and Sidney. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 88
עמוד
... faith in the infinite potentialities of human excellence . In Stoic philosophy , although Sisyphus rebels against the gods , his punishment au- thorizes his eternal reengagement with the burden of his assertion of rational and moral ...
... faith in the infinite potentialities of human excellence . In Stoic philosophy , although Sisyphus rebels against the gods , his punishment au- thorizes his eternal reengagement with the burden of his assertion of rational and moral ...
עמוד 14
... faith and redemption of Tertullian , Origen , Arnobius , St. Jerome , St. Ambrose , and St. Augustine , Sisyphus embodies the Christian concept of the human being as a sinner for whom the achievement of per- fection , equated with ...
... faith and redemption of Tertullian , Origen , Arnobius , St. Jerome , St. Ambrose , and St. Augustine , Sisyphus embodies the Christian concept of the human being as a sinner for whom the achievement of per- fection , equated with ...
עמוד 27
... faith in his potentiality to reach that elusive summit . His idealism transforms the divine command to suffer endless labor into a perpetual exercise of his free will to aspire to a state of perfectibility in which his rebellion and ...
... faith in his potentiality to reach that elusive summit . His idealism transforms the divine command to suffer endless labor into a perpetual exercise of his free will to aspire to a state of perfectibility in which his rebellion and ...
עמוד 38
... faith in the existence of the summit motivated his ascending labor to a spiritual perfectibility . Although he continually failed to reach the summit , his failure did not destroy that faith , but indicated the limits of his abilities ...
... faith in the existence of the summit motivated his ascending labor to a spiritual perfectibility . Although he continually failed to reach the summit , his failure did not destroy that faith , but indicated the limits of his abilities ...
עמוד 39
... faith in the potentiality of his intellectual and physical perfectibility . Philo of Alexandria ( Philo Judaeus ) argued that faith was the primary virtue from which all conceptions of human perfectibility were derived.35 Philo con ...
... faith in the potentiality of his intellectual and physical perfectibility . Philo of Alexandria ( Philo Judaeus ) argued that faith was the primary virtue from which all conceptions of human perfectibility were derived.35 Philo con ...
תוכן
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The Patristic Sisyphus | 67 |
Sisyphus in Medieval and Renaissance Mythography | 86 |
Sisyphus as Astral Magician | 110 |
Sisyphus as Humanist | 136 |
Sisyphus as Lover | 193 |
Sisyphus as Hero | 313 |
Notes | 427 |
Bibliography | 544 |
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
The Myth of Sisyphus: Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility <span dir=ltr>Elliott M. Simon</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2007 |
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