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What goal for the human soul did Giordano Bruno describe in The Heroic Frenzies?
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In his work The Heroic Frenzies (De gli eroici furori, 1585), the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno utilizes Neoplatonic imagery to describe the goal of the human soul as the attainment of union with the infinite One. To achieve this, he exhorts humanity to pursue the conquest of virtue and truth.1