Nicolaus Cusanus: A Fifteenth-Century Vision of Man |
Contents
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Lay Wisdom and Artisan | 117 |
Will Intellect and the Search for God | 153 |
Metaphors of Culture in the Late Works | 189 |
A Renaissance Synthesis | 224 |
Bibliography | 233 |
Index of Names | 242 |
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absolute aequalitas aliud anima Aristotle atque autem beryllo Boethius Christian conception coniecturis conjectural world creation creative Cusa Cusanus Deus dialogues Dionysius the Areopagite disjunction divine mind docta ignorantia eius emphasizes enim etiam existence finite forms globi God's habet haec homo human mind humanist icon Idiot igitur illa infinite intellectual intellectualis ipsa ipso ipsum knowledge learned ignorance ludo globi man's Marsilio Ficino medieval mente metaphor metaphysical modo motus nature Neoplatonic Nicholas of Cusa Nicolaus Nicolaus Cusanus nihil Nikolaus von Kues nisi nominalist numeri omne omnem omni omnia omnibus omnium philosophical Plato Platonist posse potentia potest quadrivium quae quam quia quidem quod quomodo quoniam rational Renaissance rerum sapientiae scholastic secundum sicut similitudine sine soul spiritual sunt tamen theology Thierry of Chartres things thought tion truth unfolding unitas unity unum Vansteenberghe vero vision vitae wisdom
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Page 122 - Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets; She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying. How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Page 120 - Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Page 39 - THE investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, we do not collectively fail, but every one says something true about the nature of things, and while individually we contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.
Page 39 - For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Page 81 - Whatsoever is brought upon thee take cheerfully, and be patient when thou art changed to a low estate. For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
Page 76 - Humana vero natura est illa, quae est supra omnia Dei opera elevata et paulo minus angelis minorata, intellectualem et sensibilem naturam complicans ac universa intra se constringens, ut microcosmos aut parvus mundus a veteribus rationabiliter vocitetur.
Page 39 - ... contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed. Therefore, since the truth seems to be like the proverbial door, which no one can fail to hit, In this...
Page 123 - And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Page 109 - Homo enim deus est, sed non absolute, quoniam homo; humanus est igitur deus. Homo etiam mundus est, sed non contracte omnia, quoniam homo. Est igitur homo microcosmos aut humanus quidam mundus.
Page 120 - As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is...