PHIL 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Raphael Rooms, Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, Marsilio Ficino

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Philosophy (PHIL)
• Course: PHIL 001
• Professor: cline

Document Summary

2 stories about the birth of venus (aphrodite) 2 stories because there are two venuses (venus and aphrodite) Depicts the earthly venus, natural and not supernatural. Corporeal matter things and creatures endowed with form (nature) rational. Conclusion: we are no anomaly in creation, we are instead occupying the most human soul/psyche angelic intellect truth and goodness. Hierarchy of beings privileged seat of all. Mankind is a type of god for other creatures, governing, controlling, and ruling over those. We have the potential to be the same but we aren"t given the same. Renaissance syncretism in images opportunities/resources so we are not. Stanza della segnatura, raphael (vatican museums, rome) 4 frescos of the oconography of the highest categories of human spirit: The first two reaffirm the neoplatonic idea of unity of christian doctrine (fides) and classical philosophy (scientia) Studied hebrew because he wanted to figure out the jewish tradition which wasn"t available in any other language other than hebrew.