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Author : Jasper Hopkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1412651115
Author : Nicholas Cusanus
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556354496
Author : Peter J. Casarella
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813214269
This volume offers a detailed historical background to Cusanus's thinking while also assaying his significance for the present. It brings together major contributions from the English-speaking world as well as voices from Europe.
Author : Karsten Harries
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813238326
This is the first commentary to have been written on Nicholas of Cusa's most famous work, On Learned Ignorance. This fact testifies to the difficulty of what has long been recognized to be the most significant philosophical text produced by the Renaissance. While there are many passages in the work that can be cited in support of Cassirer's celebration of Cusanus as the first modern philosopher, that judgment is challenged by the way his work is rooted in a faith and a tradition likely to strike us as thoroughly medieval. This commentary shows how closely the two are linked. Despite the many ways in which what the cardinal has to say belongs to a past that the progress of reason would seem to have left irrecoverably behind, it yet provides us with a continuing challenge. Key to On Learned Ignorance is the incommensurability of the infinite and the finite, of God and creation. Cusanus lets us recognize the essential transcendence of reality, so different from the ontology implied by Descartes' insistence on clear and distinct understanding, which has presided over the progress of science and has helped shape our world. What makes Cusanus' thought important is not the way it anticipates modernity, but the way it challenges often taken-for-granted presuppositions of our worldview, most importantly a distinctly modern self-assertion or self-elevation that has made our human reason the measure of reality. If it is impossible to deny the countless ways in which our science and technology have given us ever deeper insights into the mysteries of nature and improved our lives, it is equally impossible to deny that this very progress today endangers this fragile earth and the quality of our lives. Cusanus can help us preserve our humanity.
Author : Donald F. Duclow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130508679
In these papers Duclow views the thought of Eriugena, Eckhart and Cusanus through the lens of contemporary philosophical hermeneutics. He highlights the interplay of creativity, symbolic expression and language, interpretation and silence as they comment on the mind's work in naming God. This work itself becomes mystical theology when negation opens into a silent awareness of God's presence, from which the Word once again 'speaks' within the mind. Comparative studies with Gregory of Nyssa, Pseudo-Dionysius, Anselm and Hadewijch suggest the book's wider implications for medieval philosophy and theology.
Author : Cardinal Nicholas (of Cusa),Jasper Hopkins
Publisher : Arthur J. Banning Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000229455
Author : Christopher M. Bellitto,Thomas M. Izbicki,Gerald Christianson
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809141396
Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) was one of the most illustrious figures of the fifteenth century--a man whose imagination spanned the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance to point the way to modernity. Theologian, philosopher, canon lawyer, reformer, church statesman, and cardinal, Cusanus' ideas of learned ignorance and the coincidence of opposites still attract attention today across a wide variety of disciplines. However, there is no one book in the marketplace that explains to a general audience all the different facets of this Renaissance man. This book, which might be considered "Nicholas of Cusa 101," offers separate chapters for the non-specialist introducing the vocabulary, ideas, and works of Nicholas of Cusa on a wide variety of topics. The book also provides a guide to his works in Latin, English, and other languages; all the secondary literature on each topic treated; a glossary of Cusan terms and ideas; and a guide to Cusan societies, sites, libraries, and museums.
Author : Cardinal Nicholas (of Cusa)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:638840156
Author : Cardinal Nicholas (of Cusa)
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809136988
For the first time in one volume in English are the spiritual writings of this outstanding intellectual figure (1401-1464) whose work anticipated modern problems of ecumenicity and pluralism, empowerment and reconciliation, and tolerance and individuality.
Author : David Christopher Lane,Andrea Diem-Lane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1565436563
I first encountered the mystical logic of Nicholas of Cusa when I read S.L. Frank's magnificent (and under appreciated) volume, The Unknowable. I was both mesmerized and haunted by Cusa's koan-like summation of his philosophy when he wrote, "The Unattainable is Attained by its Unattainment." As Socrates and other mystic-philosophers before him, Nicholas of Cusa had realized through mathematics and geometry that infinity cannot be comprehended by that which is finite. Thus what is the best way to "know" that which exceeds us? By being profoundly learned in our own ignorance and understanding that "unknowingness" is the only pathway before us.This volume contains two elemental writings from Nicholas of Cusa: Dialogue on the Hidden God and key excerpts from On Learned Ignorance. Both of these readings deserve a very close reading, since Cusa wrote in a compacted, yet deeply pregnant, fashion, providing an intellectual landscape of precious jewels of inquiry. I have now read Nicholas of Cusa for nearly four decades and each time I find something new to contemplate. We have bookended Cusa's two selections with essays that were deeply influenced by his thinking. The first is entitled The Mystical Dimension and demonstrates that even as science progresses over time, there will still remain a Mystery given the limits of our cranial capacities and given the parameters of the universe's spatial and time specific dimensions. The second essay, The Cerebral Mirage, is by Professor Andrea Diem and touches upon neuroscience and evolution, illustrating how easy it is for us to be deceived not only by others but also by the very make-up of our neurology. In this regard, we must be keenly aware not to confuse our present brain state (and what it conveys via its filtration system) with absolute reality. Simply put, don't confuse map-making with the actual territory itself. The former is a navigating and useful tool but as such can only lead so far. Nicholas of Cusa is perhaps the most radical thinker to remain within the Roman Catholic Church and not get excommunicated. It is surprising that he was not regarded as a heretic for his revolutionary ideas. As Giordano Bruno commented about him, "Had [he] not been hindered by his priest's vestment, he would have even been greater than Pythagoras!"
Author : Nicholas of Cusa
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781616409890
Known for his deeply mystical writings about Christianity, Nicholas of Cusa wrote this, his most popular work, against a backdrop of widespread Church corruption. God, he believed, is found in all things, and thus cannot be perceived by man's senses and intellect alone. The path to ultimate knowledge, then, begins in recognizing our own ignorance. Deeply influenced by Saint Augustine, Nicholas mixes the metaphysical with the personal to create a deeply felt work, first published in 1453, designed to restore faith in even the most jaded.
Author : Professor Morimichi Watanabe
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781409482536
This work is a guide to the life, thought and activities of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), the great fifteenth-century philosopher, theologian, jurist, author of mystical and ecclesiastical treatises, cardinal and reformer. It is intended not only for advanced scholars, but also for beginners and those simply curious about a man who has been called 'one of the greatest Germans of the fifteenth century' and a 'medieval thinker for the modern age'. The book provides a series of detailed but readable essays on ideas, persons, and places, a work developed over the course of nearly three decades. First, it contains articles on the important events and concepts that affected Cusanus--philosophical, religious, intellectual and political. Then it turns to his precursors and contemporaries, both friendly and critical. These include philosophers, theologians, politicians, and canon lawyers. And third, the book follows the footsteps of the man from Kues and examines various sites where he lived, studied, or visited. Because the author has also visited many of these sites, he can contribute personal observations to enliven the journey. To add to the book's usefulness as a resource and reference tool, each entry is followed by a bibliography containing both recent and older works. The purpose of the volume is to gain a greater appreciation of Cusanus and his legacy by striving for a total view of his thought and experience instead of narrowly focusing on specific philosophical, theological or intellectual ideas, or certain periods of his activities in isolation from other facets of this compelling figure.
Author : Nancy J. Hudson
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813214726
The doctrine of theosis means a salvation that is the deification of the saved. The saved actually become God. This unusual doctrine lies at the heart of Nicholas of Cusa's (1401-1464) mystical metaphysics. It is here examined for the first time as a theme in its own right, along with its implications for Cusanus's doctrine of God, his theological anthropology, and his epistemology.
Author : Clyde Lee Miller
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813234168
“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.
Author : Cardinal Nicholas (of Cusa)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106000028578
