Ficino in the light of alchemy. Heinrich Khunrathʼ s use of Ficinian metaphysics of light

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Ficino in the light of alchemy. Heinrich Khunrathʼ s use of Ficinian metaphysics of light

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Metaphysics of light constituted an essential part of the philosophical view of Marsilio Ficino (1533-1599). At the same time, it proves to be influential, i.a., among the Paracelsians of the 16th and 17th Centuries. The paper argues that Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605), a prominent Paracelsian, alchemist, theosopher and “forerunner of the Rosicrucianism”, was inspired by Ficino’s conception of light as divine entity and of the Sun as the source of the divine animating light, present in the world. Specifically, Khunrathʼs advices to use burning mirrors to ignite “living fire”, necessary in the alchemical process, is to be interpreted as a reverberance of this theory. Similarly, the notion of the “light of nature”, used by Khunrath as well as by other Paracelsians, can be understood in the right way only if Ficino’s metaphysics and epistemology of light are taken into account.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Ficino in the light of alchemy. Heinrich Khunrathʼ s use of Ficinian metaphysics of light

Popis výsledku anglicky

Metaphysics of light constituted an essential part of the philosophical view of Marsilio Ficino (1533-1599). At the same time, it proves to be influential, i.a., among the Paracelsians of the 16th and 17th Centuries. The paper argues that Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605), a prominent Paracelsian, alchemist, theosopher and “forerunner of the Rosicrucianism”, was inspired by Ficino’s conception of light as divine entity and of the Sun as the source of the divine animating light, present in the world. Specifically, Khunrathʼs advices to use burning mirrors to ignite “living fire”, necessary in the alchemical process, is to be interpreted as a reverberance of this theory. Similarly, the notion of the “light of nature”, used by Khunrath as well as by other Paracelsians, can be understood in the right way only if Ficino’s metaphysics and epistemology of light are taken into account.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GB14-37038G" target="_blank" >GB14-37038G: Mezi renesancí a barokem: Filosofie a vědění v českých zemích a jejich širší evropský kontext</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

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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Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

281-295

Název nakladatele

The Prometheus Trust

Místo vydání

London

Místo konání akce

Olomouc

Datum konání akce

14. 6. 2017

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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