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 58
עמוד 33
... living in the world , with its dark mysteries and obsessions with human inadequacy , to a higher condition of enlightened understanding that transformed the indi- vidual into an exalted human being . The myth of Sisyphus emphasizes the ...
... living in the world , with its dark mysteries and obsessions with human inadequacy , to a higher condition of enlightened understanding that transformed the indi- vidual into an exalted human being . The myth of Sisyphus emphasizes the ...
עמוד 46
... living world . But Orpheus ' greatest strength and the source of his inspiration , his love for Eurydice , also became his greatest weakness . Within the domain of his art he has the potentiality to be successful , but in 46 THE MYTH OF ...
... living world . But Orpheus ' greatest strength and the source of his inspiration , his love for Eurydice , also became his greatest weakness . Within the domain of his art he has the potentiality to be successful , but in 46 THE MYTH OF ...
עמוד 47
... living world , but the contrary powers of strength and weakness in his aspiring love overwhelmed him . However , whereas Orpheus lost his Eurydice forever , Sisyphus , the archetypal aspirant , must harmonize those contrary powers ...
... living world , but the contrary powers of strength and weakness in his aspiring love overwhelmed him . However , whereas Orpheus lost his Eurydice forever , Sisyphus , the archetypal aspirant , must harmonize those contrary powers ...
עמוד 48
... living , but neither Orpheus nor Sisyphus was able to transform the promise of regen- eration into an achievement of their own will . Whoever tries to reenact these mysteries is doomed to fail . Sisyphus with his intellect and cunning ...
... living , but neither Orpheus nor Sisyphus was able to transform the promise of regen- eration into an achievement of their own will . Whoever tries to reenact these mysteries is doomed to fail . Sisyphus with his intellect and cunning ...
עמוד 56
... living virtuously meant living according to the rule of reason . Reason aspired to moral perfection by recreating its own harmonic ontological archetype through which the human being participates in the universal har- mony of nature as ...
... living virtuously meant living according to the rule of reason . Reason aspired to moral perfection by recreating its own harmonic ontological archetype through which the human being participates in the universal har- mony of nature as ...
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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