Het recente nummer van Philosophy Now (okt-sept) bevat een artikel van Dale DeBakcsy (delves into the secret origins of modern philosophy) over Giordano Bruno (1548-1600). Het is eigenlijk alleen voor abonnees op de site te lezen, zoals u via de vorige link hebt bemerkt, maar via deze link brengt Google ons er wellicht via enig abracadabra toch naartoe…
Daarin de volgende alinea:
"It’s interesting to me that all of this borrowing and stitching together produced a conception of the universe that closely mirrors that of Spinoza’s revolutionary Ethics, written nearly a century later, with its focus on the perfection of the infinitely complex universe and man’s highest calling, to contemplate it and find our own natures written therein. Had Bruno been a bit more staid in presentation or less combative in personality, or if he had not lived in an era when Catholicism was desperately thrashing about to find its feet again, perhaps we would be seeing him rather than Spinoza as the link between medieval and modern philosophy."
Aan het slot verwijst hij naar de meest recente biografie over Bruno: Ingrid Rowland’s Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic [University of Chicago Press, 2008 – books.google], waarvan ik hier de cover binnehaal.
Op 12 april 2013 had ik een blog met de titel: "Giordano Bruno (1548 – 1600) en Spinoza"
