Hermetic roots of Marsilio Ficino’s anthropocentric thought
Ockenström, L. (2013). Hermetic roots of Marsilio Ficino’s anthropocentric thought. J@rgonia, 11 (22), 37-56. Retrieved from http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201311272670
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Marsilio Ficino’s relationship to the Hermetic literary tradition has long
been a controversial issue in academic discussion. Although Ficino is
commonly known as a translator and keen reader of the philosophical
Hermetica, his allegiances to the Hermetic ideas have been recognized
only in his theory of magic (only to be denied later), while in other cases,
in general, scholars tend to deny the impact of Hermetic writings instead
of accepting it. This paper explores a topic in which the denial has been
particularly harsh, namely Ficino’s Promethean philosophy of man,
highlighted as the most influential achievement of his thought by
previous generations (e.g. by Trinkaus). Despite the neglect, there seems
to be some evident convergence worth researching between Ficino’s
anthropocentric passages and the philosophical Hermetic sources. The
comparative analyses may illustrate how Ficino applied Hermetic
concepts and vocabulary to construct his anthropocentricism and utilized
the name of Trismegistus to support his man-oriented ideals, which were
to have a considerable impact on European thought during the following
centuries. Furthermore, there are reasons to suggest that the inspiration
and reinforcement offered by the philosophical Hermetica encouraged
Ficino to exceed the boundaries of scholastic thought and the preceding
dignitas hominis tradition.
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