Om årsagen, princippet og enheden

by Giordano Bruno, Ole Jorn (translator), Aksel Haaning (contributer)

Om årsagen, princippet og enheden præsenterer os for renæssancens største filosof, italieneren Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), der blev henrettet for sine dristige tanker om tankens frihed og et nyt verdensbillede. Bogen, der regnes for Brunos hovedværk fra 1583, er forsynet med en meget grundig indledning om Brunos spændende og begivenhedsrige liv og en nøgle til forståelse af teksten. Selve værket er udformet som en dybsindig og underholdende dialog om det nye og det gamle verdensbillede og tanken om det uendelige og naturen som guddommens spejl. Centralt står renæssancens opfattelse af verdens-sjælen, som gennemstrømmer alt stof og dermed også betinger menneskets relation til naturen. De vigtige emner brydes ofte af humoristiske eksempler, der gør teksten let at gå til for den almindelige læser og byder også på stof til den engagerede filosofistuderende.Aksel Haaning (f. 1959) er uddannet mag.art. i middelalderens latin og ph.d. i Videnskabsstudier. Aksel Haaning er forfatter til en romanen Tre skridt fra livet og har siden udgivet en række anmelderroste faglitterære bøger. I 2016 udkom det store værk "Jung. En stemme fra dybet"."Siden midten af 1990‘erne har Aksel Haaning præsteret et af landets mest dybtgående faglitterære forfatterskaber med middelalderens filosofihistorie i særdeleshed og den europæiske kulturarv i almindelig-hed som omdrejningspunkt." – Rune Engelbreth Larsen

272 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2000

About the author

Giordano Bruno (1548 – February 17, 1600), born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer, who is best known as a proponent of the infinity of the universe. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model in identifying the Sun as just one of an infinite number of independently moving heavenly bodies: he is the first European man to have conceptualized the universe as a continuum where the stars we see at night are identical in nature to the Sun. He was burned at the stake by authorities in 1600 after the Roman Inquisition found him guilty of heresy. After his death he gained considerable fame; in the 19th and early 20th centuries, commentators focusing on his astronomical beliefs regarded him as a martyr for free thought and modern scientific ideas. Recent assessments suggest that his ideas about the universe played a smaller role in his trial than his pantheist beliefs, which differed from the interpretations and scope of God held by Catholicism.[1][2] In addition to his cosmological writings, Bruno also wrote extensive works on the art of memory, a loosely organized group of mnemonic techniques and principles. More recent assessments, beginning with the pioneering work of Frances Yates, suggest that Bruno was deeply influenced by the astronomical facts of the universe inherited from Arab astrology, Neoplatonism and Renaissance Hermeticism.[3] Other recent studies of Bruno have focused on his qualitative approach to mathematics and his application of the spatial paradigms of geometry to language.[4]