
HoP 340 - Footnotes to Plato - Marsilio Ficino
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Evolution of the Soul in Ficino's Platonic Theology
Ficino's angels are like a heavily neoplatonic updating of entities envisioned by Aquinas. They no longer play the role of serving as messengers between God and the created world. That dynamic intermediary role is instead played by the human soul, he says. Ficino argues that the soul has many functions it performs without sensation.
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