In his writings Giordano Bruno fought against the principle of authority, which he saw as an expression of a power which lacked true validity and thus could only reply with a violent imposition of its own will. What he was opposing was the authority of censors in the different guises adopted at the time; the appeal to authority was brought into play for problems to do with religious faith and not just for questions concerning literary or poetic models (for instance Petrarchism), or models of grammar and style (e.g. Ciceronianism), or philosophical models (such as the Aristotelianism which still dominated the schools).
Nei suoi scritti, Giordano Bruno combatte a tutte le latitudini il principio di autorità, quale espressione di un potere che, in mancanza di una reale autorevolezza, non può che rispondere con l'imposizione e la violenza. Si tratta quindi dell'autorità dei censori nelle diverse forme in cui si presentava all'epoca, laddove l'appello all'autorità era tirato in campo per problemi relativi alla fede religiosa e non solo per questioni relative a modelli letterari e poetici (si pensi al petrarchismo), grammaticali e di stile (si pensi al ciceronianismo) o filosofici: si pensi all'aristotelismo, ancora dominante nelle scuole.
Giordano Bruno: Portrait of a Philosopher opposed to the Authority Principle
Eugenio Canone
2015
Abstract
In his writings Giordano Bruno fought against the principle of authority, which he saw as an expression of a power which lacked true validity and thus could only reply with a violent imposition of its own will. What he was opposing was the authority of censors in the different guises adopted at the time; the appeal to authority was brought into play for problems to do with religious faith and not just for questions concerning literary or poetic models (for instance Petrarchism), or models of grammar and style (e.g. Ciceronianism), or philosophical models (such as the Aristotelianism which still dominated the schools).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.