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Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno

McIntyre, J. Lewis

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ISBN10: 1162560274
ISBN13: 9781162560274
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Sep 10 2010
Pages: 382
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.79 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
Giordano Bruno is a biography written by J. Lewis McIntyre that explores the life and ideas of the Italian philosopher, theologian, and astronomer Giordano Bruno. The book follows Bruno's life from his early years as a Dominican friar to his eventual trial and execution by the Roman Inquisition for his controversial beliefs.McIntyre provides a detailed examination of Bruno's philosophical and theological ideas, including his belief in an infinite universe and the unity of all things. The book also explores Bruno's travels throughout Europe, where he engaged in intellectual debates with some of the leading thinkers of his time.Throughout the book, McIntyre contextualizes Bruno's ideas within the political and religious climate of 16th-century Europe. He also examines the impact of Bruno's ideas on later philosophers and scientists, including Galileo and Isaac Newton.Overall, Giordano Bruno offers a comprehensive and engaging portrait of one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of the Renaissance era.This volume attempts to do justice to a philosopher who has hardly received the consideration he deserves. He is recognized by the more liberal-minded among Italians as the greatest and most daring thinker their country has produced. He has been recognized as the prophet, if not as the actual founder, of modern philosophy, and as one of the earliest apostles of freedom of thought and of speech in modern times. Part I of the book covers the life of Bruno; Part II his philosophy. Sources of the Philosophy; Foundations of Knowledge; Infinite Universe�������The Mirror of God; Nature and the Living Worlds; The Last and the Least Things: Atoms and Soul-Monads; Practical Philosophy of Bruno; Higher Life; Positive Religions and the Religion of Philosophy; Bruno in the History of Philosophy.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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