Marsilio Ficino as Reader of Plotinus: The 'Enneads' Commentary

Marsilio Ficino as Reader of Plotinus: The 'Enneads' Commentary

Gersh, Stephen

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Acknowledgements

Citations of the Plotinus Commentary

Preface



General Introduction: The Commentary on Plotinus' Enneads

?1?Religious Philosophy or Philosophical Religion

?2?Plotinus' Disclosure of Plato's Mysteries

?3?The Correction of Peripateticism

?4?The Exegetical Approach to the Enneads

?5?The Place of the Plotinus Commentary in Ficino's Work

?6?The Place of the Commentary in the Earlier "Plotinian" Tradition



Excursus 0: The Problem of Ficino's exhortatio



Part 1: Analogy and Trinity

1 Plotinus and Christianity

?1.1?The Christian Context

?1.2?The Three Primary Substances: Terminology

?1.3?The Heretical Errors



2 Ficino's Logic of Analogy

?2.1?The Platonic Genera and Their Mysteries

?2.2?The Analogy between Platonic Genera and Peripatetic Categories

?2.3?Ficino and Analogy

?2.4?Ratio and Analogy



Excursus 2: Substance and Quality

?x2.1 Substance

?x2.2 Quality



3 The Trinitarian Analogue

?3.1?Ficino, Plotinus, and Aquinas on the Trinity

?3.2?The "Plotinian" Trinity



Part 2: From Ontology to Agathology

4 The Structure of Soul

?4.1?Importance of the Commentary on Ennead I

?4.2?Soul and Animate Being

?4.3?From Microcosm to Macrocosm



5 The Unembodied Soul

?5.1?The Higher Soul in the Commentary on Ennead I

?5.2?Summary of Ficino's Doctrine of Soul

?5.3?The Higher Soul in the Commentary on Ennead IV



6 The Embodied Soul

?6.1?The Embodied Soul in the Commentary on Ennead IV



7 Transmigration and Embodiment

?7.1?Ficino against Transmigration

?7.2?Ficino and Origen



8 Sensation

?8.1?General Theory of Sensation

?8.2?Ficino's Innovations

?8.3?Vision



9 Intellect and Ideas

?9.1?Intellect and Intellectual Soul

?9.2?Analogies of Light

?9.3?The Divine "Splendour" and "Figure"

?9.4?Intellect's Relation to the Ideas

?9.5?The Relation of Ideas to One Another

?9.6?The Range of Ideas

?9.7?The Distinction between Intellect and the Intelligible

?9.8?Agent and Possible Intellect

?9.9?The Distinction between Discursive and Non-discursive Thinking

?9.10?Ideas, Formulae, and Seminal Reason-Principles

?9.11?The Temporalization of the Ideas

?9.12?Intellect's Relation to Number



10 Soul's Choice between Good and Evil

?10.1?The Good

?10.2?The Multiplicity of Goods

?10.3?The (Sub-) Contrariety of Good and Evil

?10.4?The Soul's Choice: Ficino between Plotinus and Augustine



11 The Threefold Reversion

?11.1?Return and Triplicity

?11.2?The Triadic Preamble to Ennead I. 3

?11.3?The Commentary Proper



12 Ascent to Beauty

?12.1?Irradiation of Beauty: lumen and color

?12.2?The Divine Nature of Beauty: lumen

?12.3?Reception of Beauty: splendor



13 Ascent to the One and the Good

?13.1?Presence

?13.2?Futurity

?13.3?Ascent by Will



Excursus II: Daemons and Soul

?xII.1 Internal and External Daemons

?xII.2 Plotinus' Daemon



PART 3: Matter, Reason, Spirit

14 Matter

?14.1?Negative and Affirmative Approaches

?14.2?The Structure of the Commentary on Ennead II. 4

?14.3?Quantity

?14.4?Dimensionality

?14.5?Privation

?14.6?Infinity



Excursus 14: Potency and Act

?x14.1 The Structure of the Commentary on Ennead II. 5

?x14.2 Potency and Act

?x14.3 The Metaphysical Continuum of Potency and Act

?x14.4 The Intelligible World

?x14.5 Potency and Act in Relation to Soul

?x14.6 The Sensible World

?x14.7 The Relation of Primal Matter to Being-in-Potency and Being-in-Act



15 Ratio

?15.1?The Primal Ratio in Christianity

?15.2?The Primal Ratio in Plotinus



Excursus 15: Non-formal Ratio

?x15.1 Ratio as Principle of Form

?x15.2 Ratio between the Real and the Nominal

?x15.3 Ratio above and below Form



16 Spirit

?16.1?Heaven, Fire, and Spirit

?16.2?Heaven as Macrocosm

?16.3?Fire as Macrocosm

?16.4?Spirit as Macrocosm and Microcosm

?16.5?Conspiration

Conclusion

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