When1: 1580
When2: 1600
Who: Giordano Bruno [Bruno, Giordano]
What: priest
Where: Germany/Paris, France
works\ On the Infinite Universe and Worlds
Detail: He lived 1548 to 1600 and was Dominican. He influenced Spinoza and Leibniz.
Epistemology
Absolute truth does not exist. Knowledge has no limit.
Ethics
People should be optimistic and joyous about man, nature, and God.
Metaphysics
Space, time, and particles have no limit. Countless worlds exist, each growing and decaying in the living universe.
Reality units {monad, Bruno} are parts of eternal infinite being. Monads are infinite in number, living, imperishable, individual, material, spiritual, and existing. Monads follow own laws and general law.
Universe is alive and has soul {anima mundi} {world-soul}.
God is the formal, efficient, and final cause of all things and is immanent and transcendent. World is life of God and so is perfect and harmonious, if viewed as whole. God is like light: illuminating, animating, and forming world. Essence of God and world are same {pantheism, Bruno}. World opposites harmonize in God's infinity.
All things have matter, mind, and spirit. People can know these if they are in themselves. Things are individual and different but in essence are God.
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