Re-evaluating Pico: Aristotelianism, Kabbalism, and Platonism in the Philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 3030595803, 9783030595807
This book offers a re-evaluation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the prominent Italian Renaissance philosopher and pri
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Table of contents :
Preface
Contents
About the Author
1 Introduction
A Contested Site
Pico’s Contribution
2 Life and Works
Family and Education
The Rise and Fall of a Public Life
A Private Life?
Pico’s Death
Building the Myth
Works
3 Pico’s Intellectual Foundations: Aristotelianism, Platonism, and Pico’s Syncretism
The Question of Allegiance
Aristotelianism
Platonism
Humanism
Syncretism
The Prisca Theologia and Mathematical Philosophical-Mysticism
4 The Third Pillar: Pico and Kabbalism
Introduction to Kabbalism
The History of Kabbalism
Key Texts
Pico and Kabbalism
5 Pico’s Universe
The Question of God
God’s Love
The Angelic Mind
The Active Intellect
Populating the Angelic Mind
Celestial and Natural Worlds
6 The Way Home
Mutability and Self-fashioning
Our Anatomy
Immortality of the Soul
Ascent
Love and Beauty
Jacob’s Ladder
7 Conclusion
Bibliography of works consulted
Index
Preface
Contents
About the Author
1 Introduction
A Contested Site
Pico’s Contribution
2 Life and Works
Family and Education
The Rise and Fall of a Public Life
A Private Life?
Pico’s Death
Building the Myth
Works
3 Pico’s Intellectual Foundations: Aristotelianism, Platonism, and Pico’s Syncretism
The Question of Allegiance
Aristotelianism
Platonism
Humanism
Syncretism
The Prisca Theologia and Mathematical Philosophical-Mysticism
4 The Third Pillar: Pico and Kabbalism
Introduction to Kabbalism
The History of Kabbalism
Key Texts
Pico and Kabbalism
5 Pico’s Universe
The Question of God
God’s Love
The Angelic Mind
The Active Intellect
Populating the Angelic Mind
Celestial and Natural Worlds
6 The Way Home
Mutability and Self-fashioning
Our Anatomy
Immortality of the Soul
Ascent
Love and Beauty
Jacob’s Ladder
7 Conclusion
Bibliography of works consulted
Index
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