Nature and Vicissitude – Giordano Bruno, reader of Lucretius

Authors

  • Luiz Carlos Bombassaro Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Keywords:

Lucrecio, Epicureanism, Giordano Bruno, Renaissance Philosophy

Abstract

This article aims to show the presence of Lucretius’ thinking in the work of Giordano Bruno. A historical-conceptual reconstruction of Bruno serves to indicate the most important philosophical themes, and to highlight the most significant passages, in the reading of Lucretius that appear especially in Bruno’s Italian writings. From atomism to infinitism, passing through the Lucretian thematization of culture, and through the vicissitudinal concept of history, the profound influence of De rerum natura is felt in the metaphysical, ontological and cosmological concepts as well as in the esthetic and ethical reflections of one of the greatest of Renaissance philosophers.

Author Biography

Luiz Carlos Bombassaro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Doutor em Filosofia pela Universidade de Kaiserslautern (Alemanha). Professor de Filosofia na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

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Published

2014-08-13

Issue

No. 33 (2014)

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