O infinito: ideias, transformações e as considerações de Giordano Bruno

• Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Aníbal
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13278
• topic: Infinito; Universo; Mundo; Lugar; Infinite; Universe; World; Place; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA::HISTORIA DAS CIENCIAS

In this thesis, we search for to ascertain how the concept of infinite has undergone transformations between classical Antiquity and the sixteenth century. Influenced by the Christian tradition, we have become accustomed to consider the infinite more perfect than the finite, but the ancients regarded the infinite as something imperfect and the finite as something perfect. Some authors think that the infinite could not be comprehended by the finite intellect of humanity. We want to show in our work, that the infinite was part of the human history s thoughts, and it has been debated and studied by several authors. So, the infinite stopped being a nuisance to humans and became part of the mankind s thinking, in spite of all the possible religious crises or reasons involved with the subject. In this aspect, we try to highlight a number of different ways to thinking the infinite, from de ancient Greek s ideas, called Pre-Socratics (V to VII century BCE), until Aristotle (384-322 BCE), approaching several authors from the twelfth century to the sixteenth century, and their thoughts about infinite. Through these thinkers, the Renaissance was also highlighted in our work. Finally, we emphasized the trajectory of Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), a controversial personality in the history of mankind, a thinker with an extensive work, which one has the infinite like its central theme. The relevance of Giordano Bruno s work and how he sees the world, the universe and the infinite, were also demonstrated here. The ideas about infinite worlds, infinite universe, vacuum, place and space and the refutations of the Aristotelian ideas, permeate all the work. We ll try to demonstrate in our work the different ideas, changes and considerations on the infinite and the divine presence, associated to the ideas