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Giordano
Bruno (1548 Nola -1600 Rome) De
lacosa, De l’infinito, De Monade Crazy italian neoplatonist
theologian (according to Arianna) Anti-scholasticism and
anti-aristotelianism. Pantheistic vision of infinite universe. |
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"The universal Intellect is the intimate, most real,
peculiar and powerful part of the soul of the world. This is a single whole
which filleth the whole, illumineth the universe and directeth nature to the
production of suitable species: this is concerned with the production of
natural things, as our intellect with the congruous production of rational
kinds. This is called by the Pythagoreans the motive force and mover of the
universe, as said the poet [Virgil]:`Mind moveth the whole form and mixeth
itself throughout the body.'" Giordano Bruno
Burned at
the stake by the pope in 1600.
Monotheist and pantheist view of the universe posed in
contrast with Aristotelian division between form and matter, which he defines
as two aspects of the same substance, i.e. nature, that he celebrates as divine
creation and describes as united and infinite. His views are strongly
influenced by Copernicus and Brahe’s theories, which he supported against the
officially prevailing geocentric scholasticism.
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