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Today in Marsilio Blogging

(from Laus Platonici Philosophi: Marsilio Ficino and His Influence)

Pico out here starting fights with Ficino because Ficino's interpretation of the Symposium (and his own personal philosophy on Love, Beauty, and Truth) is just a touch Too Gay.

a) Pico. I'm not entirely sure you have a leg to stand on. Like. I'm just saying rightly, or wrongly, you and Poliziano were the hot gossip at U of T's Renaissance department for years

b) leave the small, eccentric, and love filled philosopher alone. he suffers.

c) more seriously - I mean, there's weakness in Ficino's commentary on Symposium but that's because I don't think he ever meant it as a serious philosophical text but as a love letter to Giovanni Cavalcanti. Hence why he was aligning Guido Cavalcanti (Giovanni's ancestor)'s poetry to the first books of Plato's Symposium when that comparison is quite weak, to say the least.

The whole thing of Guido Cavalcanti=Socrates is so Ficino can be Plato to Giovanni's inherited Socratic role setting their own relationship as a grand philosophical inheritance (in addition, adding some semblance of legitimacy to it. Look! our Plato was Like That with his Socrates so I can be Like That with my Giovanni).

Also, it's not as explicit but there's allusions/references Ficino makes to the rather #It's Complicated romantic friendship of Guido and Dante. e.g.:

d) This is a complete aside and just about Pico and Ficino's head butting on matters philosophical and theological, but:

Reading anything by Ficino with a strict, logical manner with a logical end goal of X or Y is never the best way to approach his work. It's ecstatic. It's meditative. It's meant to be sunk into and swam in as a contemplative exorcise.

Ficino is an experience, not a exorcise.

As Linda Proud notes in her chapter in Friend to Mankind, 'Fellow Philosophers', [Ficino argues that] "If a man writes of divine frenzy, he must have experienced it; if Plato wrote the Parmenides under divine frenzy, then to read and understand, a man must bring himself to a similar condition."

Pico wrote solid, sound philosophical/theological arguments--being a man well steeped in the classic Aristotelian methodologies. Ficino was steeped in them as well, or had been in his primary education, but by temperament and interest and ultimate end goal of what he wanted to achieve he broke rank with that approach.

And naturally, Pico knew Ficino, they were good friends, they ran in the same intellectual circles, so of course Pico knows this. But at the same time, it's quite funny how clearly Ficino's indirect approach to language and argument drove him up the absolute wall with annoyance.

(And when I say friends, they were good friends to the very end. They were just friends who argued--often in a quite fiery and hot tempered manner--over Plato. As one does.)

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Bradley Whitford, talking about his Juilliard class meeting up 31 years later, on WTF with Marc Maron

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Went to a computer store collared with a lush put in me in the car. It was my for my first time using a lush! And I bought a new computer! But I was a mess in the store…. 👉👈 what is brain 😵‍💫 am all drooly on the ride home… 🤤

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a raven father (i call him "pants") I've been feeding sometimes likes to sit outside my window and either wait for more food or just listen to the stuff I'm watching while I draw. Today's a colder day so he likes to fluff up a bit, and I kid you not :

this is an accurate representation of my view

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i learned about Shiniuzhai, a convenience store hanging on a cliff in Hunan, that’s been nicknamed “most inconvenient convenience store” in China (x)

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Devastating! Art museum gift shop doesn’t sell prints of specific and unpopular painting that struck a cord with you!

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let's be bad at video games together