ignorantia

The coincidentia oppositorum is a central tenet of Cusa's philosophy of learned ignorance, derived from Dionysius the Areopagite and articulated in Cusa's treatise De docta ignorantia (1440).

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Note 127: "According to Capella," Pérez-Gómez notes, "the monad is all that is good, desirable and essential — a notion that was explicitly introduced into Renaissance theology by Nicholas of Cusa in his influential work De docta ignorantia."

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

The BCA's libel case and the McTimoney letter mean that from now on ignorantia testimonium non excusat ignorance of the evidence is no excuse.

The McTimoney Letter Jack of Kent 2009

“Humanae litterae, verbum divinum, docta ignorantia negli ultimi scritti di Enrico Cornelio Agrippa.”

Loss of Faith 2009

He reported that, during the voyage home, the insights of De docta ignorantia (1440) came to him as a kind of revelation.

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

Agrippa knew Nicholas 'works, including De docta ignorantia, and at the very end of

Loss of Faith 2009

Based on the principles of legal egalitarianism, rule of law, the Nuremberg Principles, substantial certainty doctrine, and ignorantia juris non exusat, the Canadian State has an obligation to hold G.W. Bush accountable for violating the above international laws whereas failure to do so weakens respect for and the effectiveness of the international system of jurisprudence.

Serving G. W. Bush with a Supoena for War Crimes 2009

Nicholas of Cusa's most complete set of proposals about what is real occurs in his best-known work of 1440, De docta ignorantia: On Learned Ignorance.

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

(This is often associated with the idea of ˜learned ignorance™ or docta ignorantia, though the phrase does not appear in our text.)

The Theology of Aristotle Adamson, Peter 2008

Later on, Nicholas of Cusa placed at the core of his book De docta ignorantia the idea that God is coincidentia oppositorum: as a truly infinite being, He includes all the opposite and incompatible properties, therefore being all things, and none of them: God has all properties, including contradictory ones (Heron, 1954, I. 4).

Dialetheism Priest, Graham 2008