Features of the Neoplatonic-Christian metaphysics of Nicholas of Cusa in De docta ignorantia
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metaphysics, Christian-neoplatonism, Nicholas of Cusa, docta ignorantia, moralsAbstract
This work aims to offer an overview of the Christian-Neoplatonic metaphysics of Nicholas of Cusa reflected in his youthful work De docta ignorantia, with the purpose of appreciating him as an authorized cultivator and continuer of this aspect of thought from late antiquity. If Cusano’s thought can be characterized as neoplatonic, then it can also be called henological, since the ultimate foundation is only one, that is, the One. Now, even when something is expressed from these speculative heights, much more remains in ignorance. Man does not have to earn praise for himself; the one who has assimilated the learned ignorance is the one who is far from knowing God and is aware of this ignorance, which does not cancel, as can be seen, the metaphysical discourse.
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