• "Earth’s Soul and Spontaneous Generation: Fortunio Liceti’s Criticism against Ficino’s Ideas on the Origin of Life" in: Laus Platonici Philosophi: Marsilio Ficino and His Influence, ed. Stephen Clucas et al. (Leiden: Brill, 2011), 273-299.

    Author(s):
    Hiro Hirai (see profile)
    Date:
    2011
    Subject(s):
    Philosophy, History, Science, Renaissance--Study and teaching, Intellectual life
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Platonism, Origin of Life, Atomism, Spontaneous Generation, Marsilio Ficino, History of philosophy, History of science, Renaissance studies, Intellectual history
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/azma-j727
    Abstract:
    In his "Platonic Theology on the Immortality of Souls" (1482), Marsilio Ficino defended the idea of the world's universal animation. In this purpose, he especially developed a ‘Platonic’ interpretation of spontaneous generation, relying not only on the notions of Ideas and the World-Soul but also on his own theory of the ‘earth’s soul’ (anima terrae), which influenced a number of natural philosophers in the end of the Renaissance such as Giordano Bruno and Johannes Kepler. This study analyzes the Ficinian theory in the mirror of the criticism formulated by Fortunio Liceti in his "On the Spontaneous Generation of Living Beings" (1618). 1. Introduction 2. Liceti's "De spontaneo viventium ortu" (1618) 3. Junior Platonicists and the World-Soul 4. Major Platonists and the Ideas 5. Ficino and the Earth's Soul 6. Cicero's "De natura deorum" as the source of Ficino?
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    Publisher:
    Brill
    Pub. Date:
    2011
    Book Title:
    Laus Platonici Philosophi: Marsilio Ficino and His Influence
    Page Range:
    273 - 299
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    4 years ago
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