Nicholas of Cusa and the Aristotelian Tradition
Title | Nicholas of Cusa and the Aristotelian Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Emmanuele Vimercati |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2020-07-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110630060 |
The volume focuses on the relation between Cusanus and Aristotle or the Aristotelian tradition. In recent years the attention on this topic has partially increased, but overall the scholarship results are still partial or provisional. The book thus aims at verifying more systematically how Aristotle and Aristotelianism have been received by Cusanus, in both their philosophical and theological implications, and how he approached the Aristotelian thought. In order to answer these questions, the papers are structured according to the traditional Aristotelian sciences and their reflection on Cusanus' thought. This allows to achieve some aspects of interest and originality: 1) the book provides a general, but systematic analysis of Aristotle's reception in Cusanus' thought, with some coherent results. 2) Also, it explores how a philosopher and theologian traditionally regarded as Neoplatonist approached Aristotle and his tradition (including Thomas Aquinas), what he accepted of it, what he rejected, and what he tried to overcome. 3) Finally, the volume verifies the attitude of a relevant Christian philosopher and theologian of the Humanistic age towards Aristotle.
Reading Cusanus
Title | Reading Cusanus PDF eBook |
Author | Clyde Lee Miller |
Publisher | Catholic University of America Press |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2019-01-25 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0813232120 |
This text presents readings of six of the most important theoretical works of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1463). Though Nicholas's writings have long been studied as either scholastic Aristotelian or proto-Kantian, Miller locates Cusanus squarely in the Christian Neoplatonic tradition. He demonstrates how Nicholas worked on his own original synthesis of that tradition by fashioning a conjectural view of main categories of Christian thought: God, the universe, Jesus Christ and human beings. Each reading reveals how Nicholas's project of learned ignorance is played out in striking metaphors for God and the relation of God to creation. The six works read span the last quarter of Nicholas's life (1440-1463) and include On Learned Ignorance, Conjectures, The Layman - About Mind, The Vision of God, The Not Other and The Hunt of Wisdom. These readings are explications of the text; they interpret each work as a whole and focus in particular on the themes that order the work and how these get played out in its details.
Nicolaus Cusanus: A Fifteenth-Century Vision of Man
Title | Nicolaus Cusanus: A Fifteenth-Century Vision of Man PDF eBook |
Author | Pauline Moffitt Watts |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2022-03-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 900447742X |
A Concise Introduction to the Philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa
Title | A Concise Introduction to the Philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa PDF eBook |
Author | Jasper Hopkins |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | skolasztikus filozófia |
ISBN | 0816608776 |
Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa
Title | Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa PDF eBook |
Author | Cardinal Nicholas (of Cusa) |
Publisher | Arthur J. Banning Press |
Pages | 704 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Cusanus Today
Title | Cusanus Today PDF eBook |
Author | David Albertson |
Publisher | CUA Press |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2024-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0813238110 |
At the end of the nineteenth century, German theologians and philosophers rediscovered the Renaissance cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464). Immediately they hailed Cusanus as the first modern thinker, a brilliant German rival to the French Descartes. But since the founding of the Cusanus critical edition in 1927 up to its conclusion in 2005, historians have gradually learned that Nicholas was more of a medieval preacher and contemplative than a modern philosopher. Yet over the same century, modern German and French readers were already digging into Nicholas's many works. There they encountered an exciting voice with fresh perspectives about God's immanence in the cosmos and the awesome capacities of the human mind. Leading philosophers and theologians from Erich Przywara to Karl Jaspers to Hans-Georg Gadamer, and from Gilles Deleuze to Jacques Lacan to Michel de Certeau, found their own thinking stimulated by the cardinal's innovative concepts and interdisciplinary style. Even as Nicholas shifted from modern to medieval among historians, he was emerging as a contemporary interlocutor for moderns and postmoderns. Who could have guessed that the first debate between Jean-Luc Marion and Emmanuel Falque would take place over the fifteenth-century mystical dialogue, De visione dei? If Meister Eckhart found his moment amidst Deconstruction in prior decades, Nicholas of Cusa is our thinker for today. His interests anticipate themes in continental philosophy of religion, whether alterity, invisibility, the fold, or the icon. His habit of interweaving philosophy and theology anticipates current debates on the thresholds of phenomenology. Our volume first maps the contours of modern receptions of Nicholas of Cusa in French and German spheres, and then beyond Europe to the Americas and Japan. It also hosts the next round of engagement by some of today's most original Christian thinkers: Emmanuel Falque, John Milbank, and David Bentley Hart.
The Art of Conjecture
Title | The Art of Conjecture PDF eBook |
Author | Clyde Lee Miller |
Publisher | CUA Press |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2021-03-12 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0813234166 |
“Learned ignorance,” the recognition that God is beyond us and our knowing capacities is the theological concept for which Nicholas of Cusa is most famous. Despite God’s apparent absence Nicholas offers original ways to think about God that would unite his presence with his absence. He called these proposals “conjectures” (coniecturae). Conjecture and conjecturing are central to the methodology of Nicholas’s philosophical theology and to his thinking about human knowledge. By using concrete examples from the everyday life of his times as symbolic imagery Nicholas makes what we say about God imaginatively available and theoretically plausible. He called such conjectural symbols “aenigmata” (= “symbolic or ‘enigmatic’ conjectures”) because they partially clarify and likewise point to an exact truth that is beyond us. Novel and imaginative, Nicholas’s conjectural examples break with the traditional medieval Aristotelian examples and provide further evidence of his role as a figure bridging medieval and Renaissance thought. Following his earlier book, Reading Cusanus (The Catholic University of America Press, 2003), Clyde Lee Miller here examines and comments on the meaning of “conjecture” in Nicholas of Cusa. The Art of Conjecture: Nicholas of Cusa on Knowledge explores what Nicholas meant by conjecture and its import as demonstrated in his treatises and sermons. Beginning with Nicholas’ On Conjectures, Miller analyzes a series of conjectural symbols and proposals across Nicholas’s less frequently discussed texts and recently published sermons. This early Renaissance thinker offers an original and ground-breaking way of framing speculation in philosophical theology and more generally in philosophy itself.