In:
University of Toronto Quarterly, University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress), Vol. 30, No. 2 ( 1961-01-01), p. 128-149
Abstract:
These statements seem diametrically opposed not only in content but also in tendency: Ficino looks back to Plotinus and the theory of procession, Leonardo looks ahead to Freud and the theory of instincts. Yet we observe in both the same style of imagination, the same image of pulsing dynamism intuited as the nature of the real. And we know that for both thinkers, as for most of their contemporaries, whatever lay beyond or beneath the perceived universe was felt to be charged with motion and energy. It was not that the old and honorific formulae—eternal, stable, immutable, and the like—were either abandoned or disbelieved. But the objects of theological and scientific thought could no longer be ingenuously identified with the enduring individual substances, the stable and visualizable forms, of Aristotle's common-sense world. The forms of human vision came more and more to be felt as creations of the human mind in response to a God who manifested himself chiefly in process, force, and relation.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0042-0247
,
1712-5278
DOI:
10.3138/utq.30.2.128
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Publication Date:
1961
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2067134-9
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2159811-3
SSG:
25
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