Giordano Bruno : an introduction /
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 m...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
2012.
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Colección: | Value inquiry book series ;
v. 254. Values in Italian philosophy. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 128 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789401208291 9401208298 |
ISSN: | 0929-8436 ; |