Francesco Patrizi and the Oracles of Zoroaster: The Use of Chaldean Oracles in Nova de universis philosophia

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angličtina
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Francesco Patrizi and the Oracles of Zoroaster: The Use of Chaldean Oracles in Nova de universis philosophia
Original language description
Apart from being an author of various philosophical and scholarly studies, Patrizi had also edited the half-philosophical, half-religious fragments nowadays known as the Chaldaean Oracles. He built on the work of two earlier Byzantine philosophers and scholars, Psellos and Gemistos Plethon. While significantly expanding the extent of the Oracles, Patrizi followed Plethon in ascribing these notoriously mysterious utterances to Zoroaster, who was then believed to have been the most ancient sage of all. Moreover, both Patrizi and Plethon drew inspiration from the Oracles when developing their respective philosophical systems. The aim of the paper is to compare these two thinkers' view of the Chaldean Oracles and to provide a detailed analysis of Patrizi's use of the Oracles in the Nova de universis philosophia. We try to demonstrate that for both Patrizi and Plethon, the most attractive feature of this text is the (middle) Platonic background in which it had actually originated. Particular attention is paid to the Oracles' influence on Patrizi's own cosmology and to the latent influence of Stoicism.
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Type
D - Article in proceedings
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA15-06802S" target="_blank" >GA15-06802S: Renaissance Philosophy and Science</a><br>
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Platonism and Its Legacy: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
ISBN
978-1-898910-88-6
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Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
259-279
Publisher name
The Prometheus Trust
Place of publication
Bream, Lydney, GB
Event location
Olomouc
Event date
Jun 14, 2017
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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