Dear all, I see that our deadline for action was October 1, and thus I’m writing to ask you to send me two readings each: My two readings are: Tim Ingold, Lines: a brief history. http://manoftheword.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/ingold-tim-lines-brief-history.pdf And my chapter on human and animal conversion (to be posted at the […]
In his posting on the questions from the Summa Theologica Torrance emphasized, as did Aquinas, the intellectual capacity of the human soul, and also the composite nature of the human being as ensouled and embodied. In the parts of Ficino’s De amore and the letters that we are […]
Dear Colleagues: This will be a linkless comment, in an interstice of the “lettered city” already opened for us by José and Stephen. Having granted with Rama that the cleared ground on which the conquistadors laid out their perfectly ordered cities / theatres of conversion in the New World was […]
Excerpts from Plotinus, Corpus Hermeticum, Ficino, and Bruno These are the so-called ‘god-making’ passages from ancient and Renaissance authors. More soon…
Aquinas De homine ST prima pars 75-83
Colleagues, The scanned translation of Ficino is now posted on this page. I am suggesting that we read the following from those pages: Of the De amore — speech 1: chap. 1; speech 2; speech 4; speech 6; and of the letters 22, 23, 25, 28, 29, 30. I’ll post […]
Ficino Letters on the Soul Ficino Comm Plato’s Symposium
Dear Colleagues, Inspired by José’s post from earlier this week, I wanted to share a few ideas that I have been turning over in my head since our meeting last August. What follows is, in part, a response to the readings from José, but also a proposal for how […]
Dear colleagues, Below you will find four documents to start our discussion on cities as theaters of conversion. The first of these documents comes from Toribio de Motolinía’s History of the Indians of New Spain. Motolinía’s History is a key document on the conquest and early colonization of México. The […]
