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HoP 368 - Boundless Enthusiasm - Giordano Bruno

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Bruno's Skepticism on the Trinity

In Bruno's universe no creation or destruction, there is only alteration in the accidental properties of a single infinite substance. He was thus rejecting the concept of substantial forms, which we also saw being put under pressure by Telesio. Another idea that the Inquisition deemed unacceptable was genuinely central to Bruno's thought. The world soul is familiar from Plato's to Mass and can be seen as a fusion of ideas from Aristotelianism and Platonism.

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