Cusanus

The maker of the suggestion, curiously enough, was not a practising physician, but a mathematician and scholar, Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, who is known in history as Cusanus from the Latin name of the town Cues on the Moselle River, some twenty-five miles south of Trèves, where he was born.

Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903

It is the mind's power to discriminate and make sense of what we perceive, imagine or remember that Cusanus emphasizes.

Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] Miller, Clyde Lee 2009

While Cusanus never surrenders his initial insight that there is no proportion between infinite and finite, thinking through these later symbols and neologisms lets us see how these indirect means enable some movement of mind and heart towards the divine Mystery to whom we are ever connected.

Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] Miller, Clyde Lee 2009

Cusanus proposes some possible indirect routes that will give us no positive insight or conceptual grasp of the divine Essence.

Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] Miller, Clyde Lee 2009

Here Cusanus addresses the four categorical realities traditionally found in Christian thought: God, the natural universe, Christ and human beings.

Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] Miller, Clyde Lee 2009

Cusanus 'fanciful “living” compass reminds us that as knowers we can actively accommodate our ideas to what we want to know.

Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] Miller, Clyde Lee 2009

Two figures stand out who, nobly but vainly, tried in different ways to arrest the descent into the abyss: Nicholas of Cusa or Cusanus at the beginning of the century, and Desiderius Erasmus at the end.

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Nicholas of Cusa (Nikolaus Cryfftz or Krebs in German, then Nicolaus Cusanus in Latin) was born in 1401 in Kues (now Bernkastel-Kues) on the Moselle River between Koblenz and Trier.

Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] Miller, Clyde Lee 2009

Cusanus relies on the traditional microcosm/macrocosm trope to explain why human nature would be the contracted nature best suited for union with the divine Absolute.

Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] Miller, Clyde Lee 2009

Cusanus leads us through a series of reflections on seeing and on the face of God only to let us realize that, whatever ratio or discursive reason comes to realize, God is located beyond both imaginative exercise and conceptual understanding.

Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] Miller, Clyde Lee 2009