The Myth of Sisyphus: Renaissance Theories of Human PerfectibilityFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2007 - 614 من الصفحات The myth of Sisyphus symbolizes the idealization of human excellence as a perpetual process of becoming over the impossibility of absolute achievement. In Stoic philosophy, the writing of the Early Church Fathers, and in its allegorical interpretations in medieval and renaissance mythologies, Sisyphus is the archetypal model of human perfectibility. This Sisyphean archetype is a principal theme in renaissance theories of astral magic in the works of Pico, Ficino, Reuchlin, Paracelsus, Agrippa, and Dee. Erasmus, Melanchthon, and Ascham, and in utopian thought from More to Bacon. Sisyphus illuminates the sacred mysteries of life in the works of Philo Judaeus, Plato, Nicholas Cusanus, and Ficino; the spiritual and sensual contraries of love in the dialogues of Leone Ebreo, Bembo, and Bruno; and the tribulations of the unrequited lover in the works of Petrarch, Ronsard, and Sidney. |
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الصفحة 22
... symbolizes the infinite dimensions of reality in finite forms , which in turn expands the significance of a concrete ... symbolize the human desire for omnipotence , they also expose the relative significance of human aspira- tions ...
... symbolizes the infinite dimensions of reality in finite forms , which in turn expands the significance of a concrete ... symbolize the human desire for omnipotence , they also expose the relative significance of human aspira- tions ...
الصفحة 23
... symbolizes the inherent unwilling- ness of human beings to be subordinate to the gods or any other power in nature . 12 His rebellion against the gods in Corinth is refashioned into a new reality imposed upon him by his rock - burden on ...
... symbolizes the inherent unwilling- ness of human beings to be subordinate to the gods or any other power in nature . 12 His rebellion against the gods in Corinth is refashioned into a new reality imposed upon him by his rock - burden on ...
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... symbolizes the eternal desire to reengage the ideals of human perfectibility as a process of becoming . Sisy- phus can never be disappointed for the idealization of process over achieve- ment inspires and legitimates his quest . 1 ...
... symbolizes the eternal desire to reengage the ideals of human perfectibility as a process of becoming . Sisy- phus can never be disappointed for the idealization of process over achieve- ment inspires and legitimates his quest . 1 ...
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... symbolized the mystery of natural regeneration celebrated in her cyclical Eleusinian mysteries . When the cyclical bargain is made , life after death in the natural world is a process of regeneration rather than immortality . Sisyphus ...
... symbolized the mystery of natural regeneration celebrated in her cyclical Eleusinian mysteries . When the cyclical bargain is made , life after death in the natural world is a process of regeneration rather than immortality . Sisyphus ...
الصفحة 32
... symbolizes the primary paradigm of aspiration and frustation that attends on all human endeavors that attempt to achieve parity with the gods . 15 Sisyphus ' companions in Tartarus all suf- fer variations of futile endeavors ...
... symbolizes the primary paradigm of aspiration and frustation that attends on all human endeavors that attempt to achieve parity with the gods . 15 Sisyphus ' companions in Tartarus all suf- fer variations of futile endeavors ...
المحتوى
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Sisyphus as Astral Magician | 110 |
Sisyphus as Humanist | 136 |
Sisyphus as Lover | 193 |
Sisyphus as Hero | 313 |
Notes | 427 |
Bibliography | 544 |
Index | 597 |
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الصفحة 316 - Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
الصفحة 316 - Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin : but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
الصفحة 527 - And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil : and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever...
الصفحة 525 - Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
الصفحة 525 - Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: (for there is no difference: for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;) being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood...
الصفحة 304 - Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
الصفحة 306 - Then, even of fellowship, O Moon! tell me, Is constant love deemed there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they be? Do they above love to be loved, and yet Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess ? — Do they call "virtue
الصفحة 95 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
الصفحة 524 - O Goodness infinite, Goodness immense ! That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good...