Cause, principle, and unity
By: translated and edited by Robert de Lucca ; Essays on magic / Giordano Bruno ; translated and edited by Richard J. Blackwell ; with an introduction by Alfonso Ingegno.
Contributors: Lucca, Robert de.; Blackwell, Richard J., 1929-; Bruno, Giordano, 1548-1600.; Bruno, Giordano, 1548-1600.
Series: Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800.; Magic -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Giordano Bruno's notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. In his philosophical works he addressed such delicate issues as the role of Christ as mediator and the distinction, in human beings, between soul and matter. This volume presents new translations of Cause, Principle and Unity, in which he challenges Aristotelian accounts of causality and spells out the implications of Copernicanism for a new theory of an infinite universe, and of two essays on magic, On Magic and A General Account of Bonding, in which he interprets earlier theories about magical events in the light of the unusual powers of natural phenomena. -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes text of title: A general account of bonding.