Chapter 16 Spirit
In: Marsilio Ficino as Reader of Plotinus: The ‘Enneads’ Commentary
Author:
Stephen Gersh
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Abstract
The work concludes with a consideration of Spirit. Although Ficino takes his starting-point from Enneads II. 1–3, the doctrine of spirit turns out to be more Ficinian than Plotinian and in some respects more Christian than pagan. The argument successively explores the conceptual associations between heaven and fire, fire and spirit, and heaven and spirit, concluding with an account of conspiration.