Ficino východní: zkušenost interpretace teologie a světelné metafyziky Marsilia Ficina

Abstract

This article contains an analysis of the influence of the Corpus Areopagiticum on the thought of the Renaissance Platonist Marsilio Ficino, in the process of which the author thematizes especially Dionysius’ differentiation of two aspects of the Divine: the radically transcendent, which correlates with the One of the Neoplatonists, and the manifested, energetic emanation of God ad extra, which can be associated with the Intellect. The author points out that this Dionysian theology, later developed by Gregory Palamas, provided valuable conceptual possibilities – which Ficino implicitly used – for the reconciliation of Christian orthodoxy with Neoplatonic metaphysics. And this reconciliation was, after all, one of the main goals of Ficino’s philosophical project. In the context of these considerations, Ficino’s metaphysics of light is also taken into account. Although it was related to the teachings of Dionysius, it diverged from them in a way problematic for Christian theology. The author attempts, in the conclusion of the article, to sketch out a solution to the predicament that arises from the unification of Neoplatonic emanative schema with the teachings of Dionysius the Areopagite on the gift of light.

Keywords

• marsilio ficino
• solar metaphysics
• neoplatonism
• dionysius the areopagite
• gregory palamas
• christian platonism