Chapter 2 Ficino’s Logic of Analogy
In: Marsilio Ficino as Reader of Plotinus: The ‘Enneads’ Commentary
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Stephen Gersh
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Abstract
Ficino’s methodological preoccupation with analogies. Discussion of the analogous relation between the higher genera in Plato’s Sophist and the Aristotelian categories. The chapter includes discussion of the notion of a Platonic “analogical genus” according to Ficino’s reading of Plotinus’ Enneads VI. 1–3. Ficino’s use of certain scholastic notions is also reviewed.