Ficino – David Hurley In Japan

…So Was Montaigne an Atheist or a Christian Sceptic?

September 13, 2010 David Hurley 0

In a previous post I mentioned how Montaigne Used Pyrrhonian Scepticism To Undermine Ficino’s Doctrine Of Melancholic Inspiration – I should also have mentioned that he found scepticism a useful weapon to turn against the Protestants. This had nothing to do with his being an “atheist” but, as M. A. [Read more…]

Montaigne Used Pyrrhonian Scepticism To Undermine Ficino’s Doctrine Of Melancholic Inspiration

May 16, 2008 David Hurley 0

“Madness, good, bad, or merely medical, underlies a great deal of Renaissance thought, worship, morals, literature and humour… Aristotle believed that many madmen, and all geniuses, were melancholic, an assertion he explained with the help of Plato: he took the inspiration of the true genius to be one of the [Read more…]