Renaissance and

Hieronymous Bosch. Detail of the Good Thief and the Dominican, from The Bearing of the Cross,
Ghent, Musee des Beaux Arts, circa 1505.
Manuscript illustration depicting Roger
Bacon, the Franciscan scientistphilosopher
of the 13th century.
painting are treated as subsumed expressions of the movement that characterizes the entire period.
motion which culminates in Ficino's Five Questions
Concerning the Mind. I have approached the subject In so treating development within the Renaissance,
from a vantage point not available to Renaissance the Renaissance is exemplary of human development
thinkers themselves, but, nevertheless congruent with in general. In a still larger context, it demonstrates
the germinal nature of the dialectic as it then existed, the general law of negentropy for the universe. While
From its implicitness in Leonardo Brunrs writing to that is not discussed here, the coherence of negentropy
its primitive, but full-fledged realization in Fieino, the for both organic and inorganic matter has been rigorinternal
dynamic of Renaissance thought progressed ously demonstrated in other publications of the Interin
successive phases, predicates of one subject whose national Caucus of Labor Committees. (I) Immediateactual
content is Ficino's perfectibility of existence, ly more significant for our present work is that such
Ficino's work is not merely a phase within the whole, an assumption was symptomatic of Ficino and all his
but the highest ordering -- or abstraction "of the self- co-thinkers.
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