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Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity : And Essays on
Magic
(Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
(Paperback)
by Giordano Bruno, Richard J. Blackwell (Editor),
Robert de Lucca (Editor), Alfonso Ingegno (Introduction), Karl Ameriks
(Series Editor), Desmond M. Clarke (Series Editor)
"Addressed to
the most illustrious Monsieur Michel de Castelnau Seigneur of
Mauvissiere, Concressault, and Joinville, Chevalier of the Order of the
most Christian King, Counsellor…"
Customer rating: ∗∗∗∗∗-two reviews
Book Description
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. 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, as well as two essays on magic, in which
he interprets earlier theories about magical events in the light of the
unusual powers of natural phenomena.
Language Notes
Text: English, Italian
(translation)--This text refers to the Hardcover edition
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The Expulsion Of The Triumphant Beast (Paperback)
by
Giordano Bruno,
Karen Silvia De Leon-Jones (Foreword),
Arthur D. Imerti (Translator)
Rating: ∗∗∗∗∗(1 customer review)
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian--This text refers to the Paperback
edition.
From the Inside Flap
"Bruno's works . . . will always
find a place in the heart of those who wish to move more deeply into the
European Hermetic and classical spiritual inheritance."ÑParabola.
"[Imerti's translation] is an event of singular importance for the
diffusion of Bruno studies in countries of Anglo-Saxon culture. . . .
[It is] in many respects a model of its kind."ÑItalica. "Not only worth
reading as a work of art and intellect, it illuminates an aspect of that
crucial period which saw the Renaissance, the Reformation, the
Counter-Reformation and the Inquisition."ÑLos Angeles Times. "The
editorÕs introduction is an achievement in analytical fine
writing."ÑChristian Herald.
The itinerant Neoplatonic scholar Giordano Bruno (1548Ð1600), one of the most fascinating figures of the Renaissance, was burned at the stake for heresy by the Inquisition in Rome on Ash Wednesday in 1600. The primary evidence against him was the book Spaccio de la bestia trionfante, a daring indictment of the church that abounded in references to classical Greek mythology, Egyptian religion (especially the worship of Isis), Hermeticism, magic and astrology.
The author of more than sixty works on mathematics, science, ethics, philosophy, metaphysics, the art of memory, and esoteric mysticism, Bruno had a profound impact on Western thought.
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The Pope and the Heretic: The True Story of Giordano Bruno,
the Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition (Hardcover)
by
Michael White
"THE GRAND INQUISITOR, the Lord Cardinal Santoro di
Santa Severina, was not happy&helliip;"
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Giordano Bruno, the subject of Michael White's
The Pope and the Heretic, was a thoroughly modern intellect whose fate
was to have lived during the late 16th century, a period characterized
in large part by the Inquisition, the Church's monomaniacal suppression
of what it deemed heretical thought. A "cerebral maverick," Bruno
believed in and wrote about an infinite universe--something beyond
Copernicus's heliocentric system, the human origins of the concept of
the Trinity, and a possible amalgamation of Roman Catholic doctrine with
those of ancient religions. His real crime, at least in Rome's eyes, was
his belief in "free inquiry." White's biography is exemplary, in no
small part because of his concise, crystal-clear discussions of the
period's intellectual beliefs, the delicately tempestuous battle between
papal and civil authorities, and his detailed, illuminating look at
Bruno's trial and subsequent burning at the stake. The Pope and the
Heretic is a trustworthy and enlightening entrance into the dizzyingly
complex age of the Renaissance. --H. O'Billovich
From Publishers Weekly
What is remarkable about
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is less his execution for heresy by the
Catholic Church than the philosophy that led to his death. White, who
has written biographies of Galileo, Newton and Leonardo, offers a
fast-paced account of the development of Bruno's thought and the reasons
why the Church considered these ideas heretical. As White points out in
an account that is part history of philosophy, part biography and part
church history, Bruno drew on the atomistic philosophy of Democritus,
the ancient occult rituals of Egypt and other magi, and the teachings of
Jesus to develop a philosophical system that challenged traditional
Christian doctrines. Drawing threads from each of these disparate
traditions, Bruno became the first modern pantheist, contending that
every individual is a part of God and that God is in every individual.
He argued that individuals could use mnemonic occult rituals to discover
this unity. Bruno also believed that the universe was infinite and
filled with inhabitable worlds. The philosopher was so convinced that
his ideas would allow individuals to seek God that, as White
demonstrates, he was mystified at being charged with heresy. Bruno
influenced numerous thinkers from Galileo, Leibniz and Spinoza to
Coleridge and Hegel. Although White's tightly focused study offers a
nice overview of the conflict between religion and philosophy in the
Renaissance, Frances Yates's splendid Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic
Tradition remains the standard account of Bruno's life and work.
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The Prospect of Immortality (Unknown Binding)
by R. C. W Ettinger
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The Physics of Immortality
by Frank J. Tipler
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From Publishers Weekly
In this higly unorthodox attempt to fold theology into physics, Tipler,
a Tulane professor of mathematical physics, uses quantum mechanics,
information theory, modern mathematics and physics in an effort to prove
the existence of God, an afterlife, heaven, purgatory and the physical
resurrection of the dead. Borrowing French Jesuit paleontologist
Teilhard de Chardin's concept of God as the "Omega Point," an omniscient
person "on the boundary of all future time," Tipler pursues a
reductionist approach. The human soul, he says, is a "software" program
run on the brain's "hardware." This paradoxically leads him to embrace
free will and a loving God, who will one day resurrect us all, though
"whether we shall be raised is separate from the question of whether we
shall be granted eternal life after being raised." Along with technical
and mathematical sections of this demanding treatise, readers will find
diverse material on interstellar rocket probes, Jewish messianism, the
deism of America's Founding Fathers and concepts of immortality in the
world's major faiths. Illustrations. Library of Science and Astronomy
Book Club main selections; Reader's Subscription and Natural Science
Book Club alternates; QPB selection; author tour.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Expect to hear a great deal about this book, which will be boosted
through major advertising and a 13-city author tour. Tipler, a professor
of mathematical physics at Tulane, presents a scientific argument for
the existence of God.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Impossibility : The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits (Paperback)
by John D. Barrow
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Perhaps it's a harbinger of the end of science that so much attention is
being paid to the impossible. In Impossibility, astronomer John D.
Barrow outlines a maturation pattern for areas of deep human inquiry
that includes an adolescence of exciting discoveries, new formulas, and
unusual predictions. As science has matured, our confidence in it has
grown. We expect that science has answers, that its predictive powers
are mostly accurate. But what happens when the science gets old? Oddly
enough, it seems to have started trying to find the end of its own
usefulness--its formulas "predict that there are things which they
cannot predict, observations which cannot be made, statements whose
truth they can neither affirm nor deny."
Barrow's book is a fairly tough read, delving into topics as varied as theology, art, mathematics, and cosmology in its quest to define impossibility. But for those who have noticed that, "Scientists seem no longer content merely to describe what they have done or what Nature is like; they are keen to tell their audience what their discoveries mean for an ever-widening range of deep philosophical questions," Impossibility is an intriguing look at the evolution of our thoughts on knowing everything. Without limits, there would be no science, and though our imaginations may roam freely through the realms of impossibility, we may find in the end that "what cannot be known is more revealing than what can." --Therese Littleton --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Paul Copan, Philosophy and Theology
Barrow, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Sussex, has written
a very engaging and even playful book. He attempts to show how certain
"laws" governing "Nature" help us to separate the possible from the
impossible....Barrow's book enjoyable, informative, and thought
provoking. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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