The higher good that leads us upward: Renaissance sentiments.

Who are truly of such weak judgment that they would conclude, “This is therefore the good, because one finds fulfillment in it.” On the contrary they would say, “Because now clear thinking has declared this to be the good, therefore the soul itself finds fulfilment in it, gently and joyfully.” Fire by its own nature rises upward, through which, having reached this higher realm, it finds fulfillment, for it now has obtained its good. It is not its good because it was brought to it, but on the contrary: because it is its good, fire is therefore moved by nature to obtain it.

            “Marsilio Ficino” in Cristoforo Landino, Camaldulensian Disputations