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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...

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