Chapter 9 Intellect and Ideas
In: Marsilio Ficino as Reader of Plotinus: The ‘Enneads’ Commentary
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Stephen Gersh
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Abstract
A detailed study of the doctrine of intellect and the Platonic Ideas in Ficino’s commentary. Among other topics, it includes discussion of intellect’s relation to the Ideas, the Ideas’ relation to one another, the range of Ideas, the distinction between intellect and the intelligible, the Peripatetic agent and possible intellects, the distinction between discursive and non-discursive thinking, the triad of Ideas, formulae, and seminal reason-principles, the temporalization of the Ideas, and intellect’s relation to number. This entire discussion is prefaced by a detailed analysis of Ficino’s use of the analogy of light.