RE: Giordano Bruno
February 20, 2020 at 8:17 pm
(This post was last modified: February 20, 2020 at 8:18 pm by Belacqua.)
(February 20, 2020 at 7:50 pm)brewer Wrote: And the "kooky" Bruno is a position. I'll take what I get from Stanford: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bruno/ Not in all ways kooky, includes science, at the least science thought.
This is from the Stanford page that you prefer:
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The authority that Bruno particularly liked to invoke, however, was Scripture. The infinite number of celestial bodies corresponded to “those so many hundreds of thousands [of angels]”—an allusion to Daniel 7:10—“that assist in the ministry and contemplation of the first, universal, infinite and eternal efficient cause” (BOI I, 455)
The celestial or, as Bruno called them, “principal” bodies glided weightlessly within an infinite “receptacle” or “expanse” of aether (BOI II, 110) like specks of dust in the sunlit air (BOL I.1, 262; I.2, 91). What made them move? Their souls.
Which part of this is "science thought," exactly?
Quote:BTW, I'm not going to read your "long articles". I find you/your writings quite off putting. But I read that the religious love them.
This tells us everything we need to know about the rigor of your scholarship.