This morning, NS members explored Ficinos Theology of Plato, Vol. I: Book II, Chapter I, pg. 93. Pierre commented that he sees or thinks or suspects that Ficino is coming out of the Poverty, Plenty, Love, and Aphrodite Myth in this chapter, that it would be nice if he was systematically citing his allusions to that structure of the Symposium and there is, of course, the wine image in the first paragraph. Pierre also said that Ficinos turn to nature, looking for the vestiges or traces of the higher forms such as unity, truth and goodness, the triad as Pierre called it, in all things is at the heart of sciences fascination with facts, the facts of nature, as it were, that it was more Aristotelian his theology than it is Platonic, and PG raised the puzzle of how to understand his reasoning. We will continue our excursion from the Ficino Commentary on the Parmenides, for a few days now. Regina L. Uliana also read out of Chapter I of Book I, and out of the Proem, a section declaring the purpose of the theology, very interesting. amazon/Platonic-Theology-Books-Renaissance-Library/dp/0674003454/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1403750852&sr=1-3&keywords=Ficino+The+Theology+of+Plato
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