Cause, Principle, and UnityCambridge University Press, 1998 - 186 páginas Giordano Bruno's notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. In his philosophical works he addressed such delicate issues as the role of Christ as mediator and the distinction, in human beings, between soul and matter. This volume presents new translations of Cause, Principle and Unity, in which he challenges Aristotelian accounts of causality and spells out the implications of Copernicanism for a new theory of an infinite universe, and of two essays on magic, On Magic and A General Account of Bonding, in which he interprets earlier theories about magical events in the light of the unusual powers of natural phenomena. -- Back cover. |
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absolute accidents according action active potency Aeneid animals Aristotle ARMESSO Ash Wednesday Ash Wednesday Supper attracted beauty become bind body bonding agent bound Bruno called coincidence composite considered contrary corporeal corruption Cupid's David of Dinant demons desire Dialoghi dialogue DICSONO dimensions distinction diversity divine earth edited effects efficient cause ELITROPIO essence eternal everything everywhere example exist eyes FILOTEO fire formal cause genus GERVASIO Giordano Bruno happens hate heavens Hence human individual indivisible infinite infinity intellect intelligible knowledge less light magician magnet material principle matter means motion natural things Nicholas of Cusa object particular passive potency perfect Peripatetics philosophers physical Plato Platonists Plotinus POLIINNIO possesses Principle and Unity produce pure Pythagoras qualities reason result seed sense sensible someone sometimes soul speak species spirit substance substantial form substratum TEOFILO true type of bond understand universe whole world-soul