Nicholas of Cusa, was born in 1401 when Nicolas cancer (or Cryfftz) in the village of Kues on the Mosel. At that time, Latin was the language of scholars throughout Europe. Therefore these people your name translated into Latin and so often Nicholas of Cusa came to the Cusano name.
His life
At 15 he began philosophy and theology of Nicholas (the doctrine of God) to study. It also addresses the scientific and mathematics. Studied, for example, the rotation of the earth is doing science and deals with medicine, botany and chronology. As a churchman, who is ahead, it is cardinal bishop, and finally the Pope in Rome advisor.
At 15 he began philosophy and theology of Nicholas (the doctrine of God) to study. It also addresses the scientific and mathematics. Studied, for example, the rotation of the earth is doing science and deals with medicine, botany and chronology. As a churchman, who is ahead, it is cardinal bishop, and finally the Pope in Rome advisor.
His work
Nicholas of Cusa is famous for his "learned ignorance" ("De Docta ignorantia"). In it, he believes that God can not be seen with the mind. God is so broad that it all there is "bent"is. In creating the world "is developed" it. Since God is infinite, everything combining logic seems contradictory world understandable, as wisdom and ignorance.
The human mind is so hidden God. God can be experienced in a different way: namely, the revelation of God (the infinite) in Jesus Christ (the finite) or any other experience of God, the intellectual basis is intangible. Cusano also believes that God by those who seek to know God can always be found. In short, any person wishing to acknowledge God, they do. That's part of the contradictions that combines to God in one hand, it is not so yet. Cusano calls this "the paradox of God is revealed to man. "
Its effect
With his work, Nicholas is the first integrated way, as was thought in the theology of God in question. At that time there were all know, the rules which state what God is and how to think about it. Using logic as possible was done to understand God. The weather was thought of scholastic call. Cusa presented the academic point of view as to date. With views of the incomprehensible nature of God, Cusano is on the threshold of the Middle Ages to modern times. His writings have influenced many famous thinkers who followed him.
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