Giordano ​Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition 0 csillagozás

Frances Yates: Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition Frances Yates: Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition Frances Yates: Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition Frances Yates: Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition

Emphasizing ​the primary importance of Hermetism in Renaissance thought, Yates demonstrates that Bruno was at once a rational philosopher and a magician – burned at the stake – with an unorthodox religious message. Her acclaimed study gives an overview not only of Renaissance humanism but of its interplay – and conflict – with magic and occult practices.

“Among those who have explored the intellectual world of the sixteenth century no one in England can rival Miss Yates. Wherever she looks, she illuminates. Now she has looked on Bruno. This brilliant book takes time to digest, but it is an intellectual adventure to read it. Historians of ideas, of religion, and of science will study it. Some of them, after reading it, will have to think again. . . . For Miss Yates has put Bruno, for the first time, in his tradition, and has shown what that tradition was.”—Hugh Trevor-Roper, “New Statesman”
“A decisive contribution to the understanding of Giordano Bruno, this book will… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 1964

Róla szól: Giordano Bruno

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Routledge, Abingdon, 2014
504 oldal · ASIN: B0B5FPBYGX
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University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1991
480 oldal · ISBN: 0226950077
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University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1964
466 oldal · keménytáblás · ISBN: 9780226950020

Enciklopédia 26

Szereplők népszerűség szerint

Hermész / Mercurius (Merkúr) · Thot · filozófus · Hermész Triszmegisztosz (Háromszor Legnagyobb Hermész, Háromszor Magasztos Hermész)

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Népszerű idézetek

LazaTom>!

It is not known when the Hermetic framework was first used for philosophy, but the Asdepius and the Corpus Hermeticum, which are the most important of the philosophical Hermetica which have come down to us, are probably to be dated between A.D. 100 and 300. Though cast in a pseudo-Egyptian framework, these works have been thought by many scholars to contain very few genuine Egyptian elements. Others would allow for some influence of native Egyptian beliefs upon them. In any case, however, they were certainly not written in remotest antiquity by an all-wise Egyptian priest, as the Renaissance believed, but by various unknown authors, all probably Greeks, and they contain popular Greek philosophy of the period, a mixture of Platonism and Stoicism, combined with some Jewish and probably some Persian influences.

2-3. oldal, 1. fejezet - Hermes Trismegistus (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964)

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: filozófia · görög · hermetika · ókor · reneszánsz · sztoicizmus
LazaTom>!

The Egyptian God, Thoth, the scribe of the gods and the divinity of wisdom, was identified by the Greeks with their Hermes and sometimes given the epithet of „Thrice Great”. The Latins took over this identification of Hermes or Mercurius with Thoth, and Cicero in his De natura deorum explains that there were really five Mercuries, the fifth being he who killed Argus and consequently fled in exile to Egypt where he „gave the Egyptians their laws and letters” and took the Egyptian name of Theuth or Thoth. A large literature in Greek developed under the name of Hermes Trismegistus, concerned with astrology and the occult sciences, with the secret virtues of plants and stones and the sympathetic magic based on knowledge of such virtues, with the making of talismans for drawing down the powers of the stars, and so on.

2. oldal, 1. fejezet - Hermes Trismegistus (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964)

LazaTom>!

But the returning movement of the Renaissance with which this book will be concerned, the return to a pure golden age of magic, was based on a radical error in dating. The works which inspired the Renaissance Magus, and which he believed to be of profound antiquity, were really written in the second to the third centuries A.D. He was not returning to an Egyptian wisdom, not much later than the wisdom of the Hebrew patriarchs and prophets, and much earlier than Plato and the other philosophers of Greek antiquity, who had all—so the Renaissance Magus firmly believed—drunk from its sacred fountain. He is returning to the pagan background of early Christianity, to that religion of the world, strongly tinged with magic and oriental influences, which was the gnostic version of Greek philosophy, and the refuge of weary pagans seeking an answer to life's problems other than that offered by their contemporaries, the early Christians.

1-2. oldal, 1. fejezet - Hermes Trismegistus (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964)


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