Correspondance Livre I

By (author) Marsile Ficin Translated by Sebastien Galland Translated by Julie Reynaud

Extent: 328, 328 pages

Publisher: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin

Subjects: Philosophy

Series: De Pétrarque à Descartes

Language: Latin

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(May 2014)

ISBN: 9782711624805

6.3 x 9.45 inches

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English summary: In response to Cosimo of Medicis question about the best path to happiness, the philosopher Marsilius Ficinus embarked on an epistolary exploration in dialogue with the great intellectuals of his day. This exchange of letters became a philosophical act in and of itself, becoming an effort to work on the soul itself, on the decisions it must make, and the world it must sculpt. The letters inscribe man in a progression that leads from the narrow sphere of individuality to unity and the One. French description: Au grand Cosme de Medicis qui s’enquerrait du meilleur chemin pour atteindre la felicite, le philosophe Marsile Ficin repondit par une longue lettre, qui initia une vaste correspondance avec les plus grands noms du siecle : trois generations de Medicis, dont Laurent le Magnifique, le cardinal Bessarion, les Pazzi de la conjuration, les poetes Ange Politien, Giovanni Cavalcanti… Des proches du philosophe platonicien que ce dernier assiste, tel un nouveau Seneque, dans leurs efforts pour faire leur metier d’homme. L’echange de lettres, pour perseverer au jour le jour sur la voie de la perfection, devient l’acte philosophique par excellence, amorcant tout un travail de l’ame sur lui-meme, sur les decisions qu’elle doit prendre, sur le monde qu’elle doit sculpter. La pensee syncretique de Ficin, porte-parole de la philosophia perennis, trouve dans les lettres son style particulier et son objet privilegie, la pratique. Dans sa forme, elle tient plutot de l’ancienne parenetique que de la scolastique. Ficin s’interesse a l’education, a la vie civile, aux exercices spirituels et aux efforts quotidiens que font les hommes pour se rendre dignes de leur createur. Peut-etre le lecture de Ficin devrait-elle commencer par celle de l’Epistolarium, plutot que par la Theologie platonicienne : ces lettres constituent en effet une propedeutique et inscrivent l’homme dans une progression qui le mene de la sphere etroite de son individualite jusqu’au tout et a l’Un. Passant par la serie des experiences de l’unite ici-bas (action vertueuse, banquet, politique, mais aussi echange epistolaire), Ficin prepare son lecteur a l’experience ultime de l’union au divin.

By (author) Marsile Ficin
Translated by Sebastien Galland
Translated by Julie Reynaud

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