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Re-evaluating Pico - Aristotelianism, Kabbalism, and Platonism in the Philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Re-evaluating Pico - Aristotelianism, Kabbalism, and Platonism in the Philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
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This book offers a re-evaluation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,
the prominent Italian Renaissance philosopher and prince of
Concord. It argues that Pico is part of a history of attempted
concordance between philosophy and theology, reason and faith. His
contribution is a syncretist theological philosophy based on
Christianity, Platonism, Aristotelianism and Jewish Kabbalism.
After an introduction, Chapter 2 discusses Pico's career, his
power-relations and his work, Chapters 3 and 4 place his three
pillars of Platonism, Aristotelianism and Kabbalism in their
historical context, examines shared histories, and introduces the
scholars around Pico who contributed so much in each of these
traditions (introducing, for example, Christian Kabbalism),
including exploring Pico's complex relationship with Marsilio
Ficino. Chapter 5 examines the problems of concordance within
Pico's cosmology and metaphysics, including the question of God and
the role of the Intellect. Chapter 6 describes Pico's
'exceptionalist' version of the mystical ascent as an
individualized ascetic experience. Pico eschews the contemporary
desire to use a renewed christian thinking or christian-classical
metaphysics to change the world (towards a Golden Age or a 'second
coming') to present a personal path to God, with no return to the
world.
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