论布鲁诺质料学说的来源与近代意义

On the Origin and Early Modern Significance of Giordano Bruno's Theory of Matter

布鲁诺承接库萨的"能-在"学说中的内在性思想,去掉了后者那里的超越性维度,而发展出一套更彻底的内在性思想:质料自身的运动,自身生出形式并实现作为至善的其自身。布鲁诺在将近代哲学引向对内在性真理的追求的同时,也使得近代哲学失去了对世界根本秩序之来源的关切。如果没有布鲁诺这关键一环,而仅仅停留于"认识论转向"一类的泛泛之论之论,我们就无法真正理解近代哲学的独特性。

Giordano Bruno takes over Nicholas of Cusa's thinking of immanence from his theory of possest,abandons the dimension of transcendence in the latter,and develops a kind of more radical thinking of immanence,that is,the matter moves itself,produces forms from out of itself,and realizes itself as the highest goodness.While leading the modern philosophy to the pursuing of immanent truth,Bruno makes it lack of the concern about the origin of the fundamental order of the world.Without Bruno as a critical element in early modern philosophy and only sticking to general discussions like'epistemological turn',we cannot really understand the peculiarity of early modern philosophy.