Mikołaj z Kuzy
Najmądrzejsza wiedza to znajomość granic naszej wiedzy – w Bogu wszystkie przeciwieństwa się pokrywają, a wszechświat nie ma stałego środka ani krawędzi.
Umiejscowienie
Uczona niewiedza: Bóg jest koincydencją przeciwieństw; prekursor idei nieograniczonego wszechświata.
Kluczowe idee
- Docta ignorantia
- Coincidentia oppositorum
Wpływ
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Platon
pod wpływem
Cusanus read Plato largely through Proclus’ commentary on the Parmenides and took up Platonic participation for the relation of the many to the One (De non aliud, 1462). Nicholas of Cusa, De beryllo (1458); De non aliud (1462); SEP “Nicholas of Cusa”
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Platon › 428–348 p.n.e.
Proklos
pod wpływem
Cusanus annotated Proclus’ Elements of Theology and commentary on the Parmenides and had his Platonic Theology translated by Pietro Balbi; he cites Proclus in De non aliud (1462). Nicholas of Cusa, De non aliud (1462); Proclus, Theologia Platonica, Latin tr. P. Balbi; SEP “Nicholas of Cusa”
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Proklos › 412–485
Pseudo-Dionizy Areopagita
pod wpływem
Cusanus took up Dionysius’ negative theology and darkness beyond knowledge for his learned ignorance and discussed him in letters to the Tegernsee monks on mystical theology (1453). Nicholas of Cusa, De docta ignorantia (1440), book I; letters to the monks of Tegernsee (1452–54); SEP “Nicholas of Cusa”
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Pseudo-Dionizy Areopagita › ok. 480–530
Rajmund Llull
pod wpływem
Cusanus copied and excerpted Llull’s works, still kept in his library at Kues, and drew on Lullian correlatives for his trinitarian thought. E. Colomer, Nikolaus von Kues und Raimund Llull (1961); SEP “Nicholas of Cusa”; SEP “Ramon Llull”
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Rajmund Llull › ok. 1232–1316
Mistrz Eckhart
pod wpływem
Cusanus owned and annotated a large manuscript of Eckhart’s Latin works and defended Eckhart in his Apologia doctae ignorantiae (1449), while warning against reading him publicly. Nicholas of Cusa, Apologia doctae ignorantiae (1449); Cod. Cus. 21 (Bernkastel-Kues); SEP “Nicholas of Cusa”
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Mistrz Eckhart › ok. 1260–1328
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Giordano Bruno
wpływ na ✓
Bruno called Cusanus ‘divine’ and took up his coincidence of opposites and his universe without fixed centre, extending them to an infinite universe (De la causa, 1584). G. Bruno, De la causa, principio et uno (1584); De l’infinito, universo e mondi (1584); SEP “Giordano Bruno”; SEP “Nicholas of Cusa”
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Giordano Bruno › 1548–1600
Dzieła
Bóg jako koincydencja przeciwieństw; wszechświat bez środka.
Stanowisko
Nicholas of Cusa began from the insight that finite reason cannot grasp the infinite. True wisdom is therefore “learned ignorance”: knowing that one does not know, and thinking toward God by way of mathematical images. In God all opposites coincide – the greatest and the smallest, the circle and the straight line. From this he concluded that the universe has no fixed centre or boundary, and that the earth is not at rest at the centre of everything. He also stressed that human knowledge is conjectural and creative. Standing between the Middle Ages and modern times, he anticipated ideas later found in Bruno, Leibniz and the idea of an open universe.
Życie i kontekst
Born in 1401 in Kues on the Moselle, Nicholas studied in Heidelberg, Padua and Cologne. At the Council of Basel he first sided with the conciliar party, then with the pope, and in 1437 travelled to Constantinople to prepare church union. Made a cardinal and bishop of Brixen, he worked for church reform and died in Todi in 1464.
Dalsze główne dzieła
- On Catholic Concordance (1433)
- On Learned Ignorance (1440)
- On Conjectures (c. 1442)
- On the Vision of God (1453)
- On the Peace of Faith (1453)
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