O Louvor à Filosofia Enquanto Religião Verdadeira no Primeiro Volume das Cartas de Marsílio Ficino

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  • Otávio Santana Vieira Universidade Federal da Paraíba

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https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1982-6605.2024v21n1.69716

Abstract

The renaissance neoplatonic philosopher and theologian Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) considered that wisdom should not be distinguished from religion. Therefore, he undertook as a panegyric discourse to philosophy as the defense of a religious philosophy that has as its final goal the divine enlightenment and the return to God who is understood as unity, cause and origin of everything. For Ficino, God is, as arché, the cause of wisdom/philosophy, which is in turn the cause of the other sciences. The praise of philosophy undertaken by Ficino is in itself a praise of human ingenuity, wisdom and the God in whom everything is united. In Ficino's speech, besides the constant references to Plato, there are a series of eclectic sources from Cicero, Seneca, Pythagoras, Hermes Trismegistus, Varro, Augustine and others, which marks the conciliatory and unitarian vision of Ficino’s philosophy.

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Author Biography

Otávio Santana Vieira, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Doutorando e Mestre em Ciências das Religiões (PPGCR/UFPB). Bacharel em Filosofia (UFPB); Grupo Videlicet (UFPB/CNPQ); Grupo Hermeneia (UFPE/CNPQ); CEEO-UNASUR.

Published

2024-12-30

How to Cite

SANTANA VIEIRA, Otávio. O Louvor à Filosofia Enquanto Religião Verdadeira no Primeiro Volume das Cartas de Marsílio Ficino. Religare, [S. l.], v. 21, n. 1, p. e211an06, p.1–27, 2024. DOI: 10.22478/ufpb.1982-6605.2024v21n1.69716. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/religare/article/view/69716. Acesso em: 26 jun. 2026.

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