The Concept Of Contraction In Giordano Bruno S Philosophy

Author : Leo Catana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
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Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351892452

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The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno's Philosophy by Leo Catana Pdf

Through the concept of contraction, Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) endeavoured to explain the relationship of God to his Creation in a way that conformed with his pantheistic view of nature as well as his heterodox view of man’s relationship to God. The concept of contraction is twofold. In the ontological sense it denotes the way in which the One, or God, descends to multiplicity. In the noetic sense it accounts for the ways in which the individual human soul ascends towards God through a reversed process of contemplation. Bruno denied the efficacy of the several psychical, psychological and medical states traditionally thought to aid contemplation and noetic ascent towards God. In his view the only means was philosophical contemplation, the use of memory being one important form. Philosophical contemplation elevated the mind from the fragmented multiplicity of sense impressions to an understanding of the principles governing the sensible world. This publication is the first book-length study dedicated to concept of contraction in Bruno’s philosophy. Moreover, it explores his sources for this concept. Traditionally Ficino’s translation of Plotinus, dating from the second half of the fifteenth century, has been seen as a key source to the Neoplatonism informing Bruno’s philosophy. In The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno’s Philosophy another Neoplatonic source is considered, namely the pseudo-Aristotelian Liber de Causis (Book of causes), which has not yet been examined in the context of Renaissance Neoplatonism. This work, probably written in Arabic in the ninth century, was translated into Latin in the twelfth century and remained well known to many late Medieval and Renaissance philosophers. Catana argues that this work may have prepared for Ficino’s translation of Plotinus, and that in some instances it provided a common source to Renaissance philosophers, Bruno and Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) being conspicuous examples discussed in this book.

Author : Paul Richard Blum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401208291

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Giordano Bruno by Paul Richard Blum Pdf

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was a philosopher in his own right. However, he was famous through the centuries due to his execution as a heretic. His pronouncements against teachings of the Catholic Church, his defence of the cosmology of Nicholas Copernicus, and his provocative personality, all this made him a paradigmatic figure of modernity. Bruno¿s way of philosophizing is not looking for outright solutions but rather for the depth of the problems; he knows his predecessors and their strategies as well as their weaknesses, which he exposes satirically. This introduction helps to identify the original thought of Bruno who proudly said about himself: ¿Philosophy is my profession!¿ His major achievements concern the creativity of the human mind studied through the theory of memory, the infinity of the world, and the discovery of atomism for modernity. He never held a permanent office within or without the academic world. Therefore, the way of thinking of this ¿Knight Errant of Philosophy¿ will be presented along the stations of his journey through Western Europe.

Author : Hilary Gatti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351933643

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Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance by Hilary Gatti Pdf

Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake in Rome in 1600, accused of heresy by the Inquisition. His life took him from Italy to Northern Europe and England, and finally to Venice, where he was arrested. His six dialogues in Italian, which today are considered a turning point towards the philosophy and science of the modern world, were written during his visit to Elizabethan London, as a gentleman attendant to the French Ambassador, Michel de Castelnau. He died refusing to recant views which he defined as philosophical rather than theological, and for which he claimed liberty of expression. The papers in this volume derive from a conference held in London to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Bruno's death. A number focus specifically on his experience in England, while others look at the Italian context of his thought and his impact upon others. Together they constitute a major new survey of the range of Bruno's philosophical activity, as well as evaluating his use of earlier cultural traditions and his influence on both contemporary and more modern themes and trends.

Author : Leo Catana
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047433361

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The Historiographical Concept 'System of Philosophy' by Leo Catana Pdf

Contextualizing the emergence of history of philosophy within eighteenth-century German Enlightenment, this book discusses the philosophical nature of the historiographical concept ‘system of philosophy’ and the concept’s influence upon the methods of history of philosophy and history of ideas.

Author : Mogens Laerke,Justin E. H. Smith,Eric Schliesser
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199857142

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Philosophy and Its History by Mogens Laerke,Justin E. H. Smith,Eric Schliesser Pdf

This volume collects contributions from leading scholars of early modern philosophy from a wide variety of philosophical and geographic backgrounds. The distinguished contributors offer very different, competing approaches to the history of philosophy.

Author : Vlad Alexandrescu,Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet
Publisher : Zeta Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786066970297

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Journal of Early Modern Studies: Volume 5, Issue 1 (Spring 2016) by Vlad Alexandrescu,Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet Pdf

The Journal of Early Modern Studies is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal of intellectual history, dedicated to the exploration of the interactions between philosophy, science and religion in Early Modern Europe.

Author : Matthew Eaton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000834260

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Incarnate Earth by Matthew Eaton Pdf

Incarnate Earth reimagines the doctrine of Incarnation by extending the unity between Creator and creation beyond Jesus to the entire world. In dialogue with contemporary theologies of deep incarnation and the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, the author argues that the face of Christ is encountered in the cruciform demand for justice embodied in the creaturely finitude and vulnerability that grounds ethics. Central to this vision is a recognition that the religious role-functions at the heart of Jesus’ life—the revelation of God and the redemption of the world—are performed throughout the physical world, irreducible to humanity or one heroic representative of the species. Thus, the human encounters the divine Christ in and as the face of any vulnerable thing—animal, vegetal, elemental, or otherwise—not as a transcendent being mediated through humanity. The radical nature of this reimagination necessitates renewed discussions of ecological and animal ethics, calling for compassionate care for all vulnerable bodies insofar as this is possible. It will be of interest to scholars of Christian theology and the philosophy of religion, particularly those focused on ecotheology, religious naturalism, and environmental ethics.

Author : Giannis Stamatellos
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780470655030

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Introduction to Presocratics by Giannis Stamatellos Pdf

INTRODUCTION TO PRESOCRATICS “The general public and scholars alike will find Introduction to Presocratics stimulating, engaging and exceptionally useful. Stamatellos’ intriguing and illuminating theme-based approach to this subject and his inclusion of a fresh translation of all the major fragments make this book a ‘must have’ for anyone interested in Presocratic philosophy.” Robert D. Luginbill, University of Louisville “An excellent introduction to early Greek philosophy – full of information, yet eminently readable and clearly organised. The thematic treatment brings new perspectives and fresh philosophical insights.” Andrew Smith, University College Dublin “Surveying the key surviving texts theme by theme sooner than man by man, Stamatellos offers the beginner clear and comprehensive insight into the compelling inquiries of the early Greek thinkers.” Susan Prince, University of Cincinnati “Giannis Stamatellos’ book is a very elegant and finely structured introduction to the fascinating beginnings of Western thought. He has succeeded in making a rather difficult and complex topic extremely accessible and stimulating.” Mark Beck, University of South Carolina Despite what is commonly taught, Western philosophy did not begin with Socrates. The roots of Western philosophy and science, in fact, run much deeper than this watershed philosophical figure – to a series of innovative Greek thinkers of the 6th and 5th century BCE. Introduction to Presocratics presents a succinct overview of early Greek thought by following a thematic exposition of the topics and enquiries explored by the first philosophers of the Western tradition. Ionian figures such as Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Xenophanes, Heraclitus, and Pythagoras are covered; Eleatics such as Parmenides and Zeno; and Pluralists or Neo-Ionians such as Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus. Key areas of Presocratic philosophy are addressed, including principles, cosmos, being, soul, knowledge, and ethics. A brief account of the legacy and reception of the Presocratics in later philosophical traditions is also included. Also featured is an original translation of the main Presocratic fragments by renowned classics professor Rosemary Wright. Introduction to Presocratics offers illuminating insights into the true pioneers of philosophical thought in the Western tradition.

Author : Giordano Bruno,Hilary Gatti
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487521400

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The Ash Wednesday Supper by Giordano Bruno,Hilary Gatti Pdf

Giordano Bruno's The Ash Wednesday Supper presents a revolutionary cosmology founded on the new Copernican astronomy that Bruno extends to infinite dimensions, filling it with an endless number of planetary systems.

Author : Leo Catana
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030205119

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Late Ancient Platonism in Eighteenth-Century German Thought by Leo Catana Pdf

This work synthesizes work previously published in leading journals in the field into a coherent narrative that has a distinctive focus on Germany while also being aware of a broader European dimension. It argues that the German Lutheran Christoph August Heumann (1681-1764) marginalized the biographical approach to past philosophy and paved the way for the German Lutheran Johann Jacob Brucker’s (1696-1770) influential method for the writing of past philosophy, centred on depersonalised and abstract systems of philosophy. The work offers an authoritative and engaging account of how late ancient Platonism, Plotinus in particular, was interpreted in eighteenth-century Germany according to these new precepts. Moreover, it reveals the Lutheran religious assumptions of this new approach to past philosophy, which underpinned the works of Heumann and Brucker, but also influential reviews that rejected the English Plato translator Thomas Taylor (1758-1835) and his understanding and evaluation of late ancient Platonism.

Author : Farough Fakhimi Anbaran,Ashik Mahmud,Fomeshi Behnam Mirzababazadeh,Ghasemi Parvin ,Anushiravani Alireza,Prof. (Dr.) M. KAYE SHARON,Dr. Edward P. Butler,Akinpelu Ayokunnu Oyekunle,Ruzhdie Bici,Prof. Dr. Ahmet Mancellari
Publisher : Saurabh Chandra, Socrates Scholarly Research Journal
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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SOCRATES by Farough Fakhimi Anbaran,Ashik Mahmud,Fomeshi Behnam Mirzababazadeh,Ghasemi Parvin ,Anushiravani Alireza,Prof. (Dr.) M. KAYE SHARON,Dr. Edward P. Butler,Akinpelu Ayokunnu Oyekunle,Ruzhdie Bici,Prof. Dr. Ahmet Mancellari Pdf

SOCRATES is an international, multi-lingual, multi-disciplinary refereed and indexed scholarly journal produced as par of the Harvard Dataverse Network. This journal appears quarterly in English, Hindi, Persian in 22 disciplines. About this Issue: This issue of Socrates has been divided into three sections. The first section of this issue is Language & Literature- English. The first article of this section tends to illustrate how, in spite of all those failures, Oedipus can be a hero.The second article of this section aims to explore artificial intelligence within the area of popular science fiction novels and films, which incorporates the fantasy of techno-salvation in the near future of singularity through overcoming the carbon limitations of human, fusing essence of spirituality with technology as well as extending spiritual beliefs into technological faith. The third article of this section deals with Comparative Poetics. It claims that the emergent plurivocal conversation of a comparative poetics that includes Middle East will open new horizons to our cross-cultural perspective. The second section of this issue is Philosophy. The first article of this section argues that we ought to make a concerted effort to promote intrinsic value in education.The philosophical novel, when written, taught, or read playfully, has potential to furnish this intrinsic value, thereby offering a promising way of seizing the moment in education. The second article of this section explores the systematic relationship in the work of Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) between his monadology, his metaphysics as presented in works such as De la causa, principio et uno, the mythopoeic cosmology of Lo spaccio de la bestia trionfante, and practical works like De vinculis in genere. The third article of this section argues for the synthesis of the Internalism and Externalism theory of justification. It is the opinion of the paper that since both internalist and externalists legitimately seeks the epistemic quest for certainty, both are important epistemologically. The third section of this issue is Economics, Commerce and Management. The Paper of this section analyzes different monetary and non-monetary factors influencing the poverty level. The analyze is based on data from the Living Standard Measurement Survey and using structural equations model.

Author : Manuel Mertens
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004372672

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Magic and Memory in Giordano Bruno by Manuel Mertens Pdf

Manuel Mertens guides the reader through Bruno’s mnemonic palaces, and shows how these fascinating intellectual constructions of the famous heretic philosopher can be called magical.

Author : David Albertson
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Historical T
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199989737

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Mathematical Theologies by David Albertson Pdf

The writings of theologians Thierry of Chartres (d. 1157) and Nicholas of Cusa (d. 1464) represent a lost history of momentous encounters between Christianity and Pythagorean ideas before the Renaissance. Their robust Christian Neopythagoreanism reconceived the Trinity and the Incarnation within the framework of Greek number theory, challenging our contemporary assumptions about the relation of religion and modern science. David Albertson surveys the slow formation of theologies of the divine One from the Old Academy through ancient Neoplatonism into the Middle Ages. Against this backdrop, Thierry of Chartres's writings stand out as the first authentic retrieval of Neopythagoreanism within western Christianity. By reading Boethius and Augustine against the grain, Thierry reactivated a suppressed potential in ancient Christian traditions that harmonized the divine Word with notions of divine Number. Despite achieving fame during his lifetime, Thierry's ideas remained well outside the medieval mainstream. Three centuries later Nicholas of Cusa rediscovered anonymous fragments of Thierry and his medieval readers, and drew on them liberally in his early works. Yet tensions among this collection of sources forced Cusanus to reconcile their competing understandings of Word and Number. Over several decades Nicholas eventually learned how to articulate traditional Christian doctrines within a fully mathematized cosmology-anticipating the situation of modern Christian thought after the seventeenth century. Mathematical Theologies skillfully guides readers through the newest scholarship on Pythagoreanism, the school of Chartres, and Cusanus, while revising some of the categories that have separated those fields in the past.

Author : K. Killeen,P. Forshaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780230206472

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The Word and the World by K. Killeen,P. Forshaw Pdf

This book explores the impact of biblical reading practices on scientific thought in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries. It addresses the idea that the natural philosophers of the era forged their new sciences despite, rather than because of, the pervasive bible-centeredness of early modern thought.

Author : Irving Louis Horowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858013718675

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The Renaissance Philosophy of Giordano Bruno by Irving Louis Horowitz Pdf