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 84
עמוד 50
... mind . The conscious control of reason over passion , logic over intuition , and virtue over vice aspires to an ideal state of tranquility through an indetermi- nate process of rationalization . Sisyphus ' revolt against the gods in ...
... mind . The conscious control of reason over passion , logic over intuition , and virtue over vice aspires to an ideal state of tranquility through an indetermi- nate process of rationalization . Sisyphus ' revolt against the gods in ...
עמוד 51
... mind with god . " This desire for human transcendence was not rendered in terms of a return to a " golden age " or undifferentiated union of the human and the divine , or as a mystical union with divinity , or as a hybristic imitation ...
... mind with god . " This desire for human transcendence was not rendered in terms of a return to a " golden age " or undifferentiated union of the human and the divine , or as a mystical union with divinity , or as a hybristic imitation ...
עמוד 52
... mind of the shaman - hero whose discontent with the natural order creates a profound antagonism towards others and a deeply felt sense of alienation within himself . Such mental distress is released through his desire to compete against ...
... mind of the shaman - hero whose discontent with the natural order creates a profound antagonism towards others and a deeply felt sense of alienation within himself . Such mental distress is released through his desire to compete against ...
עמוד 54
... mind and to investi- gate " the Truth . " Dialectics served as an intellectual process through which human beings constructed values and theories to explain the mysteries of their existence while at the same time they deconstructed ...
... mind and to investi- gate " the Truth . " Dialectics served as an intellectual process through which human beings constructed values and theories to explain the mysteries of their existence while at the same time they deconstructed ...
עמוד 57
... mind ; he knows that because the gods command him both to ascend and descend with his rock - burden , his cyclical labor must be part of a universal order that com- bines contrary actions into a symbolic perfection of wholeness . His ...
... mind ; he knows that because the gods command him both to ascend and descend with his rock - burden , his cyclical labor must be part of a universal order that com- bines contrary actions into a symbolic perfection of wholeness . His ...
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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