La lectura de la obra platónica por parte de san Juan de Avila
ISSN: 1135-9560
Year of publication: 2017
Issue Title: La cultura humanista: influencias del humanismo en España y América
Issue: 19
Pages: 99-115
Type: Article
More publications in: Studia philologica valentina
Abstract
The fact that saint John of Avila used to quote Plato, whom he most probably read in the Latin version of Marsilio Ficino, is used in this paper as evidence for his real interest in the Classics, albeit limited in the case of Plato to some topics of ethics and politics, because the core of Platonic philosophy (and Greek philosophy in general) gets subjected to Christian revelation. Nonetheless, he appreciates some of the Platonic arguments and even admires the depth of some of Plato’s intuitions.