To begin with, of course, we will establish that pantheism means identifying and equating nature with God or the divine. Similar views are characteristic of a number of natural philosophers of the Renaissance. In fact, the orientation to natural science itself is a manifestation of pantheism in this era.
That is, the scientific activities of people like Copernicus and Bruno were mixed with a religious vision of the world, because for scientists of that time, the existence of something divine seemed obvious. In modern terms, this was their epistemological paradigm. It mixed a return to antiquity in the form of neo-Platonism, an orientation towards natural science, and religious ideas about the functioning of the world.
To begin with, of course, we will establish that pantheism means identifying and equating nature with God or the divine. Similar views are characteristic of a number of natural philosophers of the Renaissance. In fact, the orientation to natural science itself is a manifestation of pantheism in this era.
That is, the scientific activities of people like Copernicus and Bruno were mixed with a religious vision of the world, because for scientists of that time, the existence of something divine seemed obvious. In modern terms, this was their epistemological paradigm. It mixed a return to antiquity in the form of neo-Platonism, an orientation towards natural science, and religious ideas about the functioning of the world.