Ficino, Avicenna and the Occult Powers of the Rational Soul
| Title: | Ficino, Avicenna and the Occult Powers of the Rational Soul |
| Author: | Hankins, James |
| Citation: | Hankins, James. 2003. Ficino, Avicenna and the Occult Powers of the Rational Soul. In La magia nell’Europa moderna: Tra antica sapienza e filosofia naturale, ed. Fabrizio Meroi and Elisabetta Scapparone, I, 35-52. Atti del convegno (Istituto nazionale di studi sul rinascimento) 23. Florence: Leo S. Olschki. |
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| Abstract: | Argues that the received account of Ficino's magic, that it is a gentle, natural or spiritus-based magic, are inadequate and that in some little-read passages of his Platonic Theology Ficino revealed his belief in the possibility of a higher and more powerful "angelic" magic based in the rational soul. |
| Published Version: | http://www.olschki.it/Prosp/SP/2007/57499.pdf |
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