Seeds of divinity: from metaphysics to enlightenment in Ficino and Kant

Intellectual History Review 29 (1):183-198 (2019)
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This essay traces the central role played by the notion of seeds and germs for understanding the complex metaphysics at work in both Ficino's reinterpretation of Greek philosophy for a Humanist audience, and in Kant's own efforts to describe the moral shaping of humankind that he took to be the heart of the Enlightenment project.

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10.1080/17496977.2019.1546446

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Jennifer Mensch
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