Seeds of virtue and knowledge:

In this 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 int...

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1. Verfasser: Horowitz, Maryanne Cline (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, NJ Princeton Univ. Press 1998
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Zusammenfassung:In this 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.
Beschreibung:XVIII, 373 S. Ill.
ISBN:0691044635

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