Forum: METAPHYSICS IN SCIENCE, POETRY & ART

 
METAPHYSICS IN SCIENCE, POETRY & ART
A Philosophical Forum
Sunday October 24, 2010, 12:30 - 7:30 PM
 
at KASBAH GARDEN CAFE'
105 Howe Street New Haven, CT 06511

Julianne Davidow - Neo-Platonists in the Renaissance
Richard Harteis - The Metaphysics of Poetry: Emotions, Eros, and Loss
Kathleen Damiani, PhD. - Sources of the Divine Sophia
Magda Mraz - Ancient Egypt: Spiritual Transformation of the Universe
Steve Bass, AIA, ICA - Geometry Lessons from the Great Library of Alexandria

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PRESENTATIONS
 
The Neo-Platonists in the Renaissance
Ficino's Commentary on Plato's Symposium of Love
Julianne Davidow
Author: "Outer Beauty, Inner Joy: Contemplating the Soul of the Renaissance"
http://www.juliannedavidow.com/
 
In fifteenth century Florence, Marsilio Ficino and the Platonic Academy continued in the
footsteps of the ancient Platonists. Their work initiated what is now called Renaissance
Platonism or Neo-Platonism, and had widespread effects on literature, painting, and
music, as well as on the development of mathematics and science.
 
This talk begins by giving an overview of the climate of Italy during the Renaissance,
the re-emergence of Classical philosophers, and the growth of Humanism. It will then
discuss the new philosophies forged from the Platonic and Hermetic traditions.
 
Finally, we look at some passages from Ficino's book: Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love, and see how it influenced other love treatises and the
subject matter of some paintings by Italian Renaissance artists.
 
 

Near Eastern Wisdom & sources of the Divine SOPHIA
Kathleen Damiani, PhD.
http://sophiaandthedragon.com/

The Metaphysics of Poetry: Emotion, Eros, and Loss
Richard Harteis, poet
Author: "The Revenant", "Marathon", "Sapphire Dawn."
http://williammeredithfoundation.org/


 

 
 
Egypt: The Spiritual Transformation of the Universe:
Ptah, Osiris, Isis, & Horus
Magda M. Mraz
Artwork: http://azothgallery.com/ 

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Geometry Lessons from the Great Library Knowledge,
myth and transformation in ancient Alexandria.
Steve Bass, A.I.A., I.C.A.
 
The writers and teachers of the great library of Hellenistic Alexandria created patterns and images in the subject of Geometry that set the tone for philosophers and designers for the next two millenniums. In this presentation architect Steve Bass will begin to peel back the Aristotelian surface from the work of some of the Library's outstanding geometers such as Euclid, Ptolemy, and Eratosthenes to reveal the neo-Platonic cosmological geometries that informed their mathematical imaginations. Examples will include: mythic roots of Euclidean lucidity; how the Pythagorean Tetracktys was morphed into the Tree of the Kabala; how the radius of the earth was measured with only a stick; and how Ptolemy's instructions for mapmaking led to the Renaissance rediscovery of perspective drawing.
 
Steve Bass is an Instructor at the Institute for Classical Architecture, NYC.

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Historical Introductions
1. Mesopotamia: The Newborn Universe and the name of Time
 
2. Ptolemy & Dante : the Absolute Center of Eternity
 
3. Tracing Humanism into the Enlightenment and Idealism
-- Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Kant, & Hegel
Johnes Ruta, independent curator
Art Gallery Director New Haven Free Public Library
http://azothgallery.com/dialectics.html
Posted by AzothGallery at 8/23/2011 12:05 AM
Categories: Philosophy, Art History and Theory, Economics, History, Art Critiques, Books, Alchemy, art critique
 

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