Ontology of intellect. The happiness of thinking in Averroës and Giordano Bruno, 2016
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Ontology of intellect. The happiness of thinking in Averroës and Giordano Bruno
Type Article
Language English
Date 2016
Journal Synthesis Philosophica
Volume 62
Issue 2
Pages 335–344
Categories Renaissance, Averroism
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
In this paper the author reflects comparatively on a specific issue dealt with by Giordano Bruno and Ibn Rushd: mental happiness. Mental happiness is intended here either as felicity through thinking or as felicity of thinking. The philosophical link between Averroës and Giordano Bruno is by now soundly established and the paper is rather a theoretical than an historical analysis regarding Bruno’s “Averroism”.

{"_index":"bib","_type":"_doc","_id":"5142","_score":null,"_source":{"id":5142,"authors_free":[{"id":5921,"entry_id":5142,"agent_type":"person","is_normalised":1,"person_id":755,"institution_id":null,"role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"},"free_name":"Massimo Campanini","free_first_name":"Massimiliano","free_last_name":"Campanini","norm_person":{"id":755,"first_name":"Massimo","last_name":"Campanini","full_name":"Massimo Campanini","short_ident":"","is_classical_name":0,"dnb_url":"http:\/\/d-nb.info\/gnd\/1116088959","viaf_url":"https:\/\/viaf.org\/viaf\/36958023","db_url":"","from_claudius":1,"link":"bib?authors[]=Massimo Campanini"}}],"entry_title":"Ontology of intellect. The happiness of thinking in Averro\u00ebs and Giordano Bruno","title_transcript":"","title_translation":"","main_title":{"title":"Ontology of intellect. The happiness of thinking in Averro\u00ebs and Giordano Bruno"},"abstract":"In this paper the author reflects comparatively on a specific issue dealt with by Giordano Bruno and Ibn Rushd: mental happiness. Mental happiness is intended here either as felicity through thinking or as felicity of thinking. The philosophical link between Averro\u00ebs and Giordano Bruno is by now soundly established and the paper is rather a theoretical than an historical analysis regarding Bruno\u2019s \u201cAverroism\u201d.","btype":3,"date":"2016","language":"English","online_url":"","doi_url":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.21464\/sp31207","ti_url":"","categories":[{"id":5,"category_name":"Renaissance","link":"bib?categories[]=Renaissance"},{"id":1,"category_name":"Averroism","link":"bib?categories[]=Averroism"}],"authors":[{"id":755,"full_name":"Massimo Campanini","role":1}],"works":[],"republication_of":null,"translation_of":null,"new_edition_of":null,"book":null,"booksection":null,"article":{"id":5142,"journal_id":null,"journal_name":"Synthesis Philosophica","volume":"62","issue":"2","pages":"335\u2013344"}},"sort":[2016]}

Averroè e Giordano Bruno sulla religione: metamorfosi della credenza
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Averroè e Giordano Bruno sulla religione: metamorfosi della credenza
Type Article
Language English
Journal Bruniana & Campanelliana
Volume 22
Issue 2
Pages 395-409
Categories Tradition and Reception, Averroism, Averroism
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
Although personally he had been a practicing Muslim, in the Western philosophical tradition Averroes has always had a reputation for being an unbeliever. Some aspects of Averroes’ thought, including the doctrine of the so-called ‘double truth’ and his noetic, could justify such a misinterpretation. Also Giordano Bruno can be labeled as an ‘averroistic’ unbeliever, but only because he viewed the historical religions as nomoi, ‘fake’ laws with the purpose of ruling the masses. The metamorphosis of Averroes from belief to disbelief, even through Bruno, has prepared the ground for the libertine tradition of the seventeenth and later centuries.

{"_index":"bib","_type":"_doc","_id":"5574","_score":null,"_source":{"id":5574,"authors_free":[{"id":6468,"entry_id":5574,"agent_type":"person","is_normalised":1,"person_id":755,"institution_id":null,"role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"},"free_name":"Massimo Campanini","free_first_name":"Massimo ","free_last_name":"Campanini","norm_person":{"id":755,"first_name":"Massimo","last_name":"Campanini","full_name":"Massimo Campanini","short_ident":"","is_classical_name":0,"dnb_url":"http:\/\/d-nb.info\/gnd\/1116088959","viaf_url":"https:\/\/viaf.org\/viaf\/36958023","db_url":"","from_claudius":1,"link":"bib?authors[]=Massimo Campanini"}}],"entry_title":"Averro\u00e8 e Giordano Bruno sulla religione: metamorfosi della credenza","title_transcript":"","title_translation":"","main_title":{"title":"Averro\u00e8 e Giordano Bruno sulla religione: metamorfosi della credenza"},"abstract":"Although personally he had been a practicing Muslim, in the Western philosophical tradition Averroes has always had a reputation for being an unbeliever. Some aspects of Averroes\u2019 thought, including the doctrine of the so-called \u2018double truth\u2019 and his noetic, could justify such a misinterpretation. Also Giordano Bruno can be labeled as an \u2018averroistic\u2019 unbeliever, but only because he viewed the historical religions as nomoi, \u2018fake\u2019 laws with the purpose of ruling the masses. The metamorphosis of Averroes from belief to disbelief, even through Bruno, has prepared the ground for the libertine tradition of the seventeenth and later centuries.","btype":3,"date":"","language":"English","online_url":"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/26575319","doi_url":"","ti_url":"","categories":[{"id":43,"category_name":"Tradition and Reception","link":"bib?categories[]=Tradition and Reception"},{"id":1,"category_name":"Averroism","link":"bib?categories[]=Averroism"},{"id":1,"category_name":"Averroism","link":"bib?categories[]=Averroism"}],"authors":[{"id":755,"full_name":"Massimo Campanini","role":1}],"works":[],"republication_of":null,"translation_of":null,"new_edition_of":null,"book":null,"booksection":null,"article":{"id":5574,"journal_id":null,"journal_name":"Bruniana & Campanelliana","volume":"22","issue":"2","pages":"395-409"}},"sort":[-9223372036854775808]}

Averroè e Giordano Bruno sulla religione: metamorfosi della credenza
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Averroè e Giordano Bruno sulla religione: metamorfosi della credenza
Type Article
Language English
Journal Bruniana & Campanelliana
Volume 22
Issue 2
Pages 395-409
Categories Tradition and Reception, Averroism, Averroism
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
Although personally he had been a practicing Muslim, in the Western philosophical tradition Averroes has always had a reputation for being an unbeliever. Some aspects of Averroes’ thought, including the doctrine of the so-called ‘double truth’ and his noetic, could justify such a misinterpretation. Also Giordano Bruno can be labeled as an ‘averroistic’ unbeliever, but only because he viewed the historical religions as nomoi, ‘fake’ laws with the purpose of ruling the masses. The metamorphosis of Averroes from belief to disbelief, even through Bruno, has prepared the ground for the libertine tradition of the seventeenth and later centuries.

{"_index":"bib","_type":"_doc","_id":"5574","_score":null,"_source":{"id":5574,"authors_free":[{"id":6468,"entry_id":5574,"agent_type":"person","is_normalised":1,"person_id":755,"institution_id":null,"role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"},"free_name":"Massimo Campanini","free_first_name":"Massimo ","free_last_name":"Campanini","norm_person":{"id":755,"first_name":"Massimo","last_name":"Campanini","full_name":"Massimo Campanini","short_ident":"","is_classical_name":0,"dnb_url":"http:\/\/d-nb.info\/gnd\/1116088959","viaf_url":"https:\/\/viaf.org\/viaf\/36958023","db_url":"","from_claudius":1,"link":"bib?authors[]=Massimo Campanini"}}],"entry_title":"Averro\u00e8 e Giordano Bruno sulla religione: metamorfosi della credenza","title_transcript":"","title_translation":"","main_title":{"title":"Averro\u00e8 e Giordano Bruno sulla religione: metamorfosi della credenza"},"abstract":"Although personally he had been a practicing Muslim, in the Western philosophical tradition Averroes has always had a reputation for being an unbeliever. Some aspects of Averroes\u2019 thought, including the doctrine of the so-called \u2018double truth\u2019 and his noetic, could justify such a misinterpretation. Also Giordano Bruno can be labeled as an \u2018averroistic\u2019 unbeliever, but only because he viewed the historical religions as nomoi, \u2018fake\u2019 laws with the purpose of ruling the masses. The metamorphosis of Averroes from belief to disbelief, even through Bruno, has prepared the ground for the libertine tradition of the seventeenth and later centuries.","btype":3,"date":"","language":"English","online_url":"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/26575319","doi_url":"","ti_url":"","categories":[{"id":43,"category_name":"Tradition and Reception","link":"bib?categories[]=Tradition and Reception"},{"id":1,"category_name":"Averroism","link":"bib?categories[]=Averroism"},{"id":1,"category_name":"Averroism","link":"bib?categories[]=Averroism"}],"authors":[{"id":755,"full_name":"Massimo Campanini","role":1}],"works":[],"republication_of":null,"translation_of":null,"new_edition_of":null,"book":null,"booksection":null,"article":{"id":5574,"journal_id":null,"journal_name":"Bruniana & Campanelliana","volume":"22","issue":"2","pages":"395-409"}},"sort":["Averro\u00e8 e Giordano Bruno sulla religione: metamorfosi della credenza"]}

Ontology of intellect. The happiness of thinking in Averroës and Giordano Bruno, 2016
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Ontology of intellect. The happiness of thinking in Averroës and Giordano Bruno
Type Article
Language English
Date 2016
Journal Synthesis Philosophica
Volume 62
Issue 2
Pages 335–344
Categories Renaissance, Averroism
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
In this paper the author reflects comparatively on a specific issue dealt with by Giordano Bruno and Ibn Rushd: mental happiness. Mental happiness is intended here either as felicity through thinking or as felicity of thinking. The philosophical link between Averroës and Giordano Bruno is by now soundly established and the paper is rather a theoretical than an historical analysis regarding Bruno’s “Averroism”.

{"_index":"bib","_type":"_doc","_id":"5142","_score":null,"_source":{"id":5142,"authors_free":[{"id":5921,"entry_id":5142,"agent_type":"person","is_normalised":1,"person_id":755,"institution_id":null,"role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"},"free_name":"Massimo Campanini","free_first_name":"Massimiliano","free_last_name":"Campanini","norm_person":{"id":755,"first_name":"Massimo","last_name":"Campanini","full_name":"Massimo Campanini","short_ident":"","is_classical_name":0,"dnb_url":"http:\/\/d-nb.info\/gnd\/1116088959","viaf_url":"https:\/\/viaf.org\/viaf\/36958023","db_url":"","from_claudius":1,"link":"bib?authors[]=Massimo Campanini"}}],"entry_title":"Ontology of intellect. The happiness of thinking in Averro\u00ebs and Giordano Bruno","title_transcript":"","title_translation":"","main_title":{"title":"Ontology of intellect. The happiness of thinking in Averro\u00ebs and Giordano Bruno"},"abstract":"In this paper the author reflects comparatively on a specific issue dealt with by Giordano Bruno and Ibn Rushd: mental happiness. Mental happiness is intended here either as felicity through thinking or as felicity of thinking. The philosophical link between Averro\u00ebs and Giordano Bruno is by now soundly established and the paper is rather a theoretical than an historical analysis regarding Bruno\u2019s \u201cAverroism\u201d.","btype":3,"date":"2016","language":"English","online_url":"","doi_url":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.21464\/sp31207","ti_url":"","categories":[{"id":5,"category_name":"Renaissance","link":"bib?categories[]=Renaissance"},{"id":1,"category_name":"Averroism","link":"bib?categories[]=Averroism"}],"authors":[{"id":755,"full_name":"Massimo Campanini","role":1}],"works":[],"republication_of":null,"translation_of":null,"new_edition_of":null,"book":null,"booksection":null,"article":{"id":5142,"journal_id":null,"journal_name":"Synthesis Philosophica","volume":"62","issue":"2","pages":"335\u2013344"}},"sort":["Ontology of intellect. The happiness of thinking in Averro\u00ebs and Giordano Bruno"]}

  • PAGE 1 OF 1