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Portrait, and a short biography which concentrates on his interest in astronomy.Category Society Religion and Spirituality Nicholas of CusaNicholas of Cusa. Nicholas of Cusa was ordained in 1440 and was a cardinalin Brixon (now Bressanone) and in 1450 became bishop there.
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Extractions: Nicholas of Cusa was ordained in 1440 and was a cardinal in Brixon (now Bressanone) and in 1450 became bishop there. He was interested in geometry and logic. He contributed to the study of infinity, studying the infinitely large and the infinitely small. He looked at the circle as the limit of regular polygons and used it in his religious teaching to show how one can approach truth but never reach it completely. Cusa is best known as a philosopher who argued the incomplete nature of man's knowledge of the universe. He claimed that the search for truth was equal to the task of squaring the circle In 1444 he became interested in astronomy and purchased sixteen books on astronomy, a wooden celestial globe, a copper celestial globe and various astronomical instruments including an astrolabe His interest in astronomy certainly led him to certain theories which were true and others which may still prove to be true. For example he claimed that the Earth moved round the Sun. He also claimed that the stars were other suns and that space was infinite. He also believed that the stars had other worlds orbiting them which were inhabited. He got much right that perhaps this will also be found to be true one day!
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Nicholas of Cusa (Nicolaus Cusanus), 1401?1464, German humanist, scientist, statesman,and philosopher, from 1448 cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Extractions: Nicholas of Cusa De Docta Ignorantia [of learned ignorance] (1440, tr. 1954), De Conjuncturis Libri Duo, and De Visio Dei [vision of God] (1453, tr. 1928). It anticipated the direction of growth of Renaissance conjecture concerning the nature of man and his relationship to the cosmos. See studies by Morimichi Watanabe (1963); F. H. Burgevin (1969); and J. Hopkins (1986).
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NICHOLAS OF CUSA Overview He wrote/published 25 books. Member ofthe Catholic Church. Biography 14011464 -Born in Kues, Germany
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Extractions: His interests lied in geometry and logic. Also studied Infinity, the Infinite large and small. Main argument as a philosopher is that the "search for truth is equal tot he task of squaring a circle". He became interested in Astronomy in 1444 saying that the earth moved around the Sun, that the stars were other suns and that space was infinite, and that these suns had other worlds that were inhabited.
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Extractions: Nicholas of Cusa lived from 1401 to 1464 CE. He is the author of approximately 25 philosophical and spiritual works, but he also led a very active life. He served the Roman Catholic Church as a papal advocate before the imperial diets, cardinal-legate to Germany and the Netherlands, bishop at Brixen (in what's now known as Germany) and a papal adviser, vicar-general, and cameraius in Rome.
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Extractions: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 09:39:20 -0500 I used to work on Nicholas, primarily as Bishop of Brixen;; now I don't need the books. I have several, mostly in German: collections of printed documents, and articles. Would anyone like them? I'd hate to throw them away. I'll give them to anyone who's interested. Pardon Tillinghast, Middlebury College
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Read about the life of this German cardinal and philosopher who put aside Aristotle in favor of more mystical topics. Home Catholic Encyclopedia N nicholas of cusa
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Extractions: Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... N > Nicholas of Cusa A B C D ... Z German cardinal, philosopher, and administrator, b. at Cues on the Moselle, in the Archdiocese of Trier, 1400 or 1401; d. at Todi, in Umbria, 11 August, 1464. His father, Johann Cryfts (Krebs), a wealthy boatman ( nauta, not a "poor fisherman"), died in 1450 or 1451, and his mother, Catharina Roemers, in 1427. The legend that Nicholas fled from the ill-treatment of his father to Count Ulrich of Mandersheid is doubtfully reported by Hartzheim (Vita N. de Cusa, Trier, 1730), and has never been proved. Of his early education in a school of Deventer nothing is known; but in 1416 he was matriculated in the University of Heidelberg, by Rector Nicholas of Bettenberg, as "Nicholaus Cancer de Coesze, cler[icus] Trever[ensis] dioc[esis]". A year later, 1417, he left for Padua, where he graduated, in 1423, as doctor in canon law ( decretorum doctor ) under the celebrated Giuliano Cesarini. It is said that in later years, he was honoured with the doctorate in civil law by the University of Bologna. At Padua he became the friend of Paolo Toscanelli Nicholas V , to bring him to Rome for the acceptance of this honour. In 1449 he was proclaimed cardinal-priest of the title of St. Peter ad Vincula.
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Extractions: Download Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0. or higher Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109), often called the Father of Scholasticism, was born in Aosta, in the Kingdom of Burgundy. Today Aosta belongs to Italy, specifically to the region of Val d'Aosta. Anselm later became prior (1063), and then abbot (1078), of the Monastery of Bec-Hellouin in Normandy, France. In 1093 he was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury in England. As an intellectual, he is known above all for his three works the Monologion, the Proslogion, and the Cur Deus Homo. Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), sometimes misleadingly referred to as the first "modern" philosopher, was born in Kues, Germany (today Bernkastel-Kues ). He became a canon lawyer and a cardinal. His two best-known works are
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About nicholas of cusa. nicholas of cusa lived from 1401 to 1464 CE.He is the author of approximately 25 philosophical and spiritual
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Extractions: Nicholas of Cusa Nicholas of Cusa lived from 1401 to 1464 CE. He is the author of approximately 25 philosophical and spiritual works, but he also led a very active life. He served the Roman Catholic Church as a papal advocate before the imperial diets, cardinal-legate to Germany and the Netherlands, bishop at Brixen (in what's now known as Germany) and a papal adviser, vicar-general, and cameraius in Rome. A pivotal point in his life occurred in 1437 when Pope Eugene IV sent Cusa and two other bishops to Constantinople to help secure Greek approval for a joint East-West council in Italy. His interaction with Eastern Orthodox Christians provided him with a fresh vision of unity and difference coexisting not only within the church but also in the soul's experience of God and the world. During this trip Cusa also reports having a profound, revelatory experience which he believed to be a divine gift. It was a visionary experience of the "incomprehensible" that opened up new ways for Cusa to speak about the ineffable. Hugh Lawrence Bond, the author of
Nicholas Of Cusa. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
Short biography.Category Society Religion and Spirituality nicholas of cusa nicholas of cusa. (Nicolaus cusanus), 1401?1464, German humanist, scientist,statesman, and philosopher, from 1448 cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
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The Philosophy Of Nicholas Of Cusa
Brief outline of his life, and introduction to his epistemology and theodicy.
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Essay by Elton Hall. Theosophical perspective.
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Extractions: Since the divine in us is certainly not vain, we need to know that we are ignorant. If we can attain this end completely, we shall attain 'learned ignorance'. For nothing becomes a man, even the most zealous, more perfectly in learning than to be found very learned in ignorance itself, which is his characteristic, and anyone will he the more learned the more he knows his own ignorance. De docta ignorantia NICHOLAS OF CUSA Everything craves its contrary, and not for its like", Socrates reports hearing a statesman say; "the dry craves for moisture, the cold for heat, the bitter for sweetness, the sharp for bluntness, the empty to be filled, the full to be emptied." This affirmation in the Lysis of the universal play of opposites in the realm of phenomena applies ironically to the history of the church in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Innocent III, pope from 1198 to 1216, first realized the practical possibility of extending the spiritual and temporal rule of the church across the whole of Europe. His most spectacular success was the submission of England where, under John and Henry III, he ruled de jure and de facto through his legates. Those who followed him pursued the policies of an imperial papacy. Even as the attendant bureaucracy began to embrace the continent, two countervailing forces arose: the burgesses emerged as a business-oriented class with distinctly secular attitudes, whilst rulers and ministers who had once built kingdoms around their courts increasingly thought in terms of nation-states. The former mocked the religious decadence of a church flagrantly panting after gold, and the latter sought to divert that gold into national treasuries.
Meister Eckhart In Nicholas Of Cusas 1456 Sermon
Observations by Clyde Lee Miller.
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Extractions: Menu Vier Predigten im Geiste Eckharts , would be a selection of Cusan sermons modeled after Eckharts wondrous German sermons. But Koch had other purposeshe was concerned to show that Nicholas, though not directly influenced by Eckhart before the late 1440s, was definitely reading Eckhart by the early 1450s. So he picked four sermons where Cusanus took material directly from Eckharts Latin treatises (not even Eckharts Latin sermons!). Kochs effort was and is edifying, of course, for those tracing Nicholas relation to or defense of Meister Eckhart. Yet the upshot is that this sermon of 1456 is definitely not "in the spirit of" Eckharts German sermons, in the sense of Eckharts literary style. But what Nicholas says accords with the teaching Eckhart propounded in his Latin commentaries on Johns Prologue and on Genesis. Cusanus sermon is "secundum mentem Magistri Eckardi" in substance and often repeats his words verbatim. His further explanations and proposals are particularly interesting as he expounds the Meister in Cusan fashion. "Ubi est qui natus est rex Judeorum?" Following Eckharts commentary on John 1:38, Nicholas indicates (#4) that this utterance of the Magi from Matthews Gospel need not be taken as a question. Instead, it can be read as a statement or declaration, as if it said that the where or place of everything is God, the one born king of the Jews. Jesus is "where or place in the absolute sense." The next ten sections of the sermon expand on and interpret this idea.
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Extractions: from Oxford University Press Nicholas of Cusa A student at Heidelberg and Padua, he subsequently became active in Church politics, making an impact at the Council of Basle (1432), and seeing some of his ecumenical work bearing fruit some years later at the Council of Florence. He became a cardinal in 1448. Nicholas is famous for his teaching on docta ignorantia (educated ignorance), in which he focuses upon the ineffability of God , and the implication that those who think they have affirmative knowledge of God are truly ignorant, the knowledgeable ones being those who are aware that they are ignorant of him. The unknowability of God follows from Nicholas's doctrine of the 'coincidence of opposites', that in God there exist as identities what are utterly distinct in us. For example, the existence of a created thing is distinct from its

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