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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Neoplatonism"”.
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Spinoza's Neoplatonism: The Metaphysics of the Unitive Knowledge and Love of God
… not yet been adequately recognised, however, is Neoplatonism, a tradition originating in the 3rd century AD with the philosopher and rational mystic Plotinus. This neglect is partly due to the mediated and indirect nature of Neoplatonism’s impact on Spinoza. Yet Plotinus and his successors deeply …
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The influence of humanism on the handwriting of Michelangelo Buonarroti
… influence of Humanism and, to a lesser extent, Neoplatonism.
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John Dee and the 'Sidney Group' : cosmopolitics and Protestant 'activism' in the 1570s
… picture' by reference to such formulae as 'Neoplatonism', 'Hermeticism', and 'Rosicrucianism', but while these are valid and significant in all sorts of ways, there has been no clear apprehension of the main focus of his system. The predominant impression of Dee is of an enormously erudite, …
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Neoplatonic identities : literary representation and the politics of Queen Henrietta Maria's court circle
… plays. By tracing the influences of both neoplatonism and reformed Catholic theology in the Queen's theatrical productions, I. demonstrate how courtly women came to be privileged as the arbiters of taste and judgement, and show how this led to a perception of them as properly political …
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The Path to Personal Salvation: The Hermetic Trope of Self-Mastery in Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton
… emerged in parallel with early Christianity, Neoplatonism, and Gnosticism. The Hermetic tradition gained importance in the Renaissance with Marsilio Ficino's translations and soon became an alternative avenue for the exploration in the spiritual conception of the 'self' as divine, a conception …
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Augustine’s Understanding of the Human Soul: Origin, Life, and End
… setting Augustine’s perspective apart from Neoplatonism and other philosophical ideologies. This chapter shows Augustine’s articulation of the Christian doctrine of creation ex nihilo, examining its presence in various works by him. The third chapter unfolds the human soul’s life, centering …
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Geometry and light in the architecture of Guarino Guarini
… inside the metaphysical tradition. Meanwhile the Neoplatonism of Francesco Patrizi da Cherso (1529-1597), undermined the philosophy of both light and ancient cosmology, a rupture of the great significance. My enquiry, guided by Guarini's references, starts with Patrizi, and examines the …
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Renouncing sex and the self: asceticism in early modern England
… poetry), materiality impeded the immaterial (Neoplatonism), and sign stood in uncertain relation to signified (scriptural exegesis). How asceticism negotiates body and soul has relevance to these other relationships, and they to it. Since, for instance, the dynamic tension between form and …
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In Principio Erat Signum: Dueling Dionysianisms & Sacramental Semiotics In Thomistic & Mystical Franciscan Poetry
… proposes that the broad tradition of Christian Neoplatonism might offer the type of stable metaphysical-semiotic foundation to bolster performatism’s more positive instincts. Tracing a general metaphysics of union from Plato’s *Phaedrus* to the sacramental cosmos of Dionysius the Areopagite, the …
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On Beauty And Ethics In Shakespeare And His Contemporaries
… works and studies the correlation between Neoplatonism, Protestant grace, and the Levinasian "ethical". I elucidate the potential for ethical violence inherent in responses to beauty and show that these responses to beauty are fraught with difficulties and necessarily involve a …
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Analysis and Evaluation of Vladimir Lossky's Doctrine of Theosis
… reabsorption into the divine nature as it is in Neoplatonism. In affirming the ontological character of theosis, Lossky exploits two crucial distinctions that were made in Orthodox theology: essence/energy and person/nature.</p> <p>In evaluating the main biblical and theological (philosophical) …
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The influence of the theosophical movement on the revival of astrology in Great Britain and North America in the 20th century
… of the world, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Neoplatonism, Hermeticism and early Christian and Jewish mysticism. This thesis proposes that modern astrology has, to a considerable degree, enriched and renewed itself by drawing upon these traditions through Theosophy, leading to enhanced …
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(Un)veiling nature : a comparative study of Spenser's poetics in Mutabilitie canto seven
… and behind this, the poetics of continental neoplatonism. The poetic persona's failed attempt to describe Nature in stanzas 5-9 of Mutabilitie Canto VII ends with his referring the reader to Alan of Lille, who "perform'd the deed so as it ought" (MC 7.9.8). While this seems to suggest the …
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On Eros in Plotinus: Attempt at a Systematic Reconstruction (with a Preliminary Chapter on Plato)
<p>This study is an attempt at a systematic reconstruction of Plotinus’ understanding of eros or love in two basic steps, corresponding to Chapters One−Two and Three−Four respectively.</p><p>The first step highlights Plotinus’ connection to Plato. In Chapter One, first I argue that Plotinus’ way of …
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Proclus on Aristotle on Plato. A Case Study on Motion
My PhD thesis focuses on Proclus (412–485 AD) and his engagement with Aristotle’s theory of motion with a specific focus on Aristotle’s criticism of Plato. There are two main goals. (i) I refute the widespread view that Proclus – in line with other Neoplatonists – adheres to the idea of an …
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'And That Misformed Shape, Misshaped More': The Stranger Mathematics of 'The Faerie Queene'
This thesis reframes the normative poetic terminology which (today, as in Elizabethan England) allies poetic structures with humanist cosmic and mathematical ideals: ‘number’; ‘proportion’; ‘measure’; ‘unity’; ‘harmony’; ‘symmetry’ (etc.). Arguing for ‘the stranger mathematics’ of The Faerie …
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Hesiod Unveiled: The 'Other Poet' among the Exegetes
This dissertation traces the exegetical traditions to the corpus of epic poetry attributed to Hesiod across eight hundred years. Beginning at the Library of Alexandria, it examines how philological techniques, allegoresis, and education intertwine to interpret the Other Poet, the second pillar of …
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The Philosophical Heritage of Desire for God in Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān
<p>This dissertation investigates the role of desire in Ibn Ṭufayl’s <em>Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān</em> through a philosophical investigation of desire from Plotinus to Ibn Ṭufayl. I examine Plotinus’s account of desire for the Good, and I argue that this desire forms the basis of his account of substance, …
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Collapse Into Silence: Denys the Areopagite as the Key Source of Richard of St. Victor
This thesis deals with the process of transmission of Pseudo-Dionysius’ texts over the centuries. Dionysius’ texts have been translated into Latin by many scholars- above all, John Eriugena, whose translation was used during the Middle Ages. The school of St. Victor, during the eleventh and twelfth …
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