Platon, Plotin und Marsilio Ficino

This volume is a collection of aspects of discussions on an astonishing abundance of scientific, medical, astrological and mythological subjects which are to be found in the writings of the Florentine philosopher, theologian and doctor Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499). The influence his work had on philosophers of the modern age can be explained by the versatility with which he discusses the entire corpus of philosophical literature of antiquity and the Middle Ages that preceded him, and by the topicality of his questioning. The authors of the volume elaborate some of the connections Ficino makes as well as some of his frequently unexpected extrapolations. The individual texts deal with Ficino´s philosophical precursors and sources, Plato´s philosophy and Plotinus´s Neo-platonism (Eugen Dönt, Maria-Christine Leitgeb, Thomas Ricklin, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Arbogast Schmitt, Kurt Sier, Kurt Smolak), the interpretation of Ficino´s own writings (Paul Richard Blum, Christine Harrauer, Sergius Kodera, Stéphane Toussaint), and finally with the reception of Platonic philosophy in modern age texts which at times is to be found in surprising places (Richard Heinrich, Elisabeth Klecker, Franz Römer).