Verona, Italia
In the thought of Giordano Bruno, anthropology results from both metaphysical and mystical questions: in fact, man is placed in a metaphysical scheme providing for an original cause, which produces the reality as a whole. On the level of his external existence, man is placed between the original cause and vicissitude, whereas, as far as his inner nature is concerned, he is split between the light of the soul and the fallacy of the body. The latter, however, allows the human individuation of the anima mundi: on the one hand, body represents a heavy burden, obstructing the way to excellence; on the other hand, it is a constitutive element of the entire human structure.
Furthermore, human body, being the “contour” of the embodied soul, i.e. a liminar element subordinated to the soul, but being simultaneously able to relate the latter to the vicissitude, plays a specific role in the affirmation of the excellence of the human being: the divine man actually remains within the vicissitude, displaying his magnitude in a form which comprises body as one of its essential and constitutive elements.
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