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Evermore shall be so : Ficino on Plato's Parmenides / [translated by] Arthur Farndell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499.
- Series:
- Commentaries by Ficino on Plato's writing.
- Commentaries by Ficino on Plato's writing
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plato. Parmenides.
- Plato.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd., 2008.
- Summary:
- Featuring philosophical commentary from Marsilio Ficinoa leading scholar of the Italian Renaissance who translated all the works of Plato into Latinthis work is the first English translation of Ficino's commentary of Plato's dialogue between the philosopher Parmenides and the youthful Socrates. In the scene, the older man instructs his student on the use of dialectic to draw the mind away from its preoccupation with the realm of matter and attract it towards contemplation of the soul.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Translator's Introduction
- An Overview of Ficino's Parmenides Commentary
- Commentary by Marsilio Ficino to Plato's Parmenides
- Glossary
- Name Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0-85683-361-4
- OCLC:
- 690211804
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