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The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno's Philosophy (Paperback)
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The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno's Philosophy (Paperback)
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Through the concept of contraction, Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)
endeavoured to explain the relationship of God to his Creation in a
way that conformed with his pantheistic view of nature as well as
his heterodox view of man's relationship to God. The concept of
contraction is twofold. In the ontological sense it denotes the way
in which the One, or God, descends to multiplicity. In the noetic
sense it accounts for the ways in which the individual human soul
ascends towards God through a reversed process of contemplation.
Bruno denied the efficacy of the several psychical, psychological
and medical states traditionally thought to aid contemplation and
noetic ascent towards God. In his view the only means was
philosophical contemplation, the use of memory being one important
form. Philosophical contemplation elevated the mind from the
fragmented multiplicity of sense impressions to an understanding of
the principles governing the sensible world. This publication is
the first book-length study dedicated to concept of contraction in
Bruno's philosophy. Moreover, it explores his sources for this
concept. Traditionally Ficino's translation of Plotinus, dating
from the second half of the fifteenth century, has been seen as a
key source to the Neoplatonism informing Bruno's philosophy. In The
Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno's Philosophy another
Neoplatonic source is considered, namely the pseudo-Aristotelian
Liber de Causis (Book of causes), which has not yet been examined
in the context of Renaissance Neoplatonism. This work, probably
written in Arabic in the ninth century, was translated into Latin
in the twelfth century and remained well known to many late
Medieval and Renaissance philosophers. Catana argues that this work
may have prepared for Ficino's translation of Plotinus, and that in
some instances it provided a common source to Renaissance
philosophers, Bruno and Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) being
conspicuous examples discussed in this book.
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