Giordano Bruno · Philosophy
In <em>De gli eroici furori</em>, Bruno recast the pursuit of truth as a heroic passion - a love that consumes and transforms the lover, figured by the hunter Actaeon who, glimpsing the naked Diana, is turned into a stag and devoured by his own hounds: the seeker becoming what he sought.
You learned that Bruno’s Heroic Frenzies treats the pursuit of infinite truth as a transforming heroic love, using Actaeon (turned into a stag and devoured by his own hounds after glimpsing Diana) to figure the seeker consumed and remade by the divine he chases. Explain the allegory and what it says about knowin…
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