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Reading Cusanus

Reading Cusanus

Miller, Clyde Lee

Paperback

Series: Studies in Philosophy & the History of Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0813232120
ISBN13: 9780813232126
Publisher: Catholic Univ Of Amer Pr
Published: Jan 23 2019
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
This book presents careful readings of six of the most important theoretical works of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1463). Though Nicholas' writings have long been studied as either scholastic Aristotelian or proto-Kantian, Clyde Lee Miller locates Cusanus squarely in the Christian Neoplatonic tradition. He demonstrates how Nicholas worked out 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 of the readings reveals how Nicholas' 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 century of Nicholas' life (1440-1463) and include On Learned Ignorance, Conjectures, The Layman: About Mind, The Vision of God, The Not Other, and The Hunt for 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. The Introduction uses a brief early dialogue, On the Hidden God, to orient the reader by locating Nicholas' work in relation to Plato's famous image of the divided line. The book's conclusion presents a reprise of the main ideas in each work and an appraisal of their import.

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