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In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking study, Maryanne Cline Horowitz explores the image and idea of the human mind as a garden: under the proper educational cultivation, the mind may nourish seeds of virtue and knowledge into the full flowering of human wisdom. This copiously illustrated investigation begins by examining the intellectual world of the Stoics, who originated the phrases "seeds of virtue" and "seeds of knowledge." Tracing the interrelated history of the Stoic cluster of epistemological images for natural law within humanity--reason, common notions, sparks, and seeds--Horowitz presents the distinctive versions within the competing movements of Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity, Augustinian and Thomist theologies, Christian mysticism and Kabbalah, and Erasmian Catholicism and the Lutheran Reformation. She demonstrates how the Ciceronian and Senecan analogies between horticulture and culture--basic to Italian Renaissance humanists, artists, and neo- Platonists--influence the emergence of emblems and essays among participants in the Northern Renaissance neo-Stoic movement.
The Stoic metaphor is still visible today in ecumenical movements that use vegetative language to encourage the growth of shared values and to promote civic virtues: organizations disseminate information on nipping bad habits in the bud and on turning a new leaf. The author's evidence of illustrated pages from medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment texts will stimulate contemporary readers to evaluate her discovery of "the premodern scientific paradigm that the mind develops like a plant."
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Horowitz (history, Occidental College) examines the Stoic image of the human mind as a garden, in which seeds of knowledge and virtue flower into human wisdom and goodness, if nurtured by education. She traces the history of this and related Stoic ideas through classical, medieval, and Renaissance materials. Particular attention is paid to the works of these philosophers, theologians, and artists: Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Philo, Seneca, Quintillian, Augustine, Aquinas, Ficino, Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola, Erasmus, Sadoleto, Luther, Alciati, Lipsius, Calvin, Bodin, Montaigne, Charron, and Du Vair. Horowitz aims to show that these Stoic ideas relate to such Renaissance themes as the dignity of humanity, the existence of free will, the suitability of women for intellectual activity, the foundation of nobility on virtue rather than on birth, opposition to tyranny and slavery, and an ethics independent of particular religions. No other book covers the ground traversed by this volume. Recommended for the libraries of institutions offering programs in the history of ideas or in medieval or Renaissance studies. H. Pospesel; University of Miami
Table des matières
Illustrations | |
Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Ch. 1 Stoic Seeds of Virtue and Sparks of Divinity | p. 21 |
Ch. 2 The Challenge to Christian Theologians | p. 35 |
Ch. 3 Medieval and Renaissance Vegetative Images | p. 57 |
Ch. 4 Ficino: Neo-Platonic Ascent through Love and Education | p. 81 |
Ch. 5 Italian Renaissance Humanism: Rebirth and Flowering of the Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge | p. 96 |
Ch. 6 Vegetative Language of Virtue and Vice in Discourses on the Dignity or Depravity of Humankind | p. 119 |
Ch. 7 Northern Renaissance Humanism: Cultivating and Transplanting the Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge | p. 155 |
Ch. 8 Bodin: "All the Ancient Hebrews and Academics Have Held" | p. 181 |
Ch. 9 Montaigne: Seeds of Virtue in Peasants and Amerindians | p. 206 |
Ch. 10 Charron: Seeds of Virtue for Virtue's Own Sake | p. 223 |
Epilogue | p. 238 |
Notes | p. 257 |
Index Nominum | p. 349 |
Index Rerum | p. 361 |