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The Renaissance of Plotinus - The Soul and Human Nature in Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the Enneads (Paperback)
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The Renaissance of Plotinus - The Soul and Human Nature in Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the Enneads (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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Plotinus (204/5-270 C.E.) is a central figure in the history of
Western philosophy. However, during the Middle Ages he was almost
unknown. None of the treatises constituting his Enneads were
translated, and ancient translations were lost. Although scholars
had indirect access to his philosophy through the works of Proclus,
St. Augustine, and Macrobius, among others, it was not until 1492
with the publication of the first Latin translation of the Enneads
by the humanist philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) that
Plotinus was reborn to the Western world. Ficino's translation was
accompanied by a long commentary in which he examined the close
relationship between metaphysics and anthropology that informed
Plotinus's philosophy. Focusing on Ficino's interpretation of
Plotinus's view of the soul and of human nature, this book
excavates a fundamental chapter in the history of Platonic
scholarship, one which was to inform later readings of the Enneads
up until the nineteenth century. It will appeal to scholars and
students interested in the history of Western philosophy,
intellectual history, and book history.
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