Integral Edition (Italian Edition)

"De la causa, principio e uno", part of the trilogy of Giordano Bruno's great metaphysical dialogues, along with "La Cena delle ceneri" and "De l'infinito, universo e mondi", presents the philosopher's most comprehensive conception of reality. Eliminating all transcendence, God is conceived as nature itself, understood as infinite potentiality and infinite actuality, as natura naturans and natura naturata, "the true essence of all being." There is a single substance that generates every aspect of reality, and a single Spirit, the artisan, the principle of all things, the infinite life force. However, Being is not only in itself, but also as it is known and morally evaluated. It thus becomes the True in knowledge and the Good in moral evaluation, generating in the human being who contemplates it "the excellence of one's own humanity."

It is the field of inquiry that distinguishes the theologian from the philosopher, who seeks God not outside but within things, in the universe, in nature, in ourselves. This is a central theme in Bruno's thought: the search for Truth is that of philosophy, which dedicates itself to the study and contemplation of nature, seeking to understand the unity that lies hidden in multiplicity.

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