> Such histories don’t know what to do with thinkers whose ideas were orthogonal to such debates, and if one characterizes the #Renaissance as “Faith!” vs. “Reason!” and #MarsilioFicino comes along and says “Let’s use Platonic Reason to heal the soul!” a Whig history doesn’t know what to do with that, and reads it as a “dead end” or “detour.” Only heroes or villains fit the narrative, so #Ficino must either become one or the other, or be left out.
#FaithVReason #ReasonVFaith