Echoes of Aquinas in Cusanus's Vision of Man (eBook)

Markus Fuhrer (Autor)

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2014
252 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-8741-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines the influence of Saint Thomas Aquinas upon Nicholas of Cusa’s (Cusanus) doctrine of human nature. It explores this influence against the background of other authors associated with Cusanus’ own generation of philosophers in order to demonstrate the uniqueness of Cusanus’ use of Aquinas.

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Echoes of Aquinas in Cusanus's Vision of Man demonstrates the influence that the philosophical and theological anthropology of Saint Thomas Aquinas had on Nicholas of Cusa's (Cusanus) view of human nature. Markus Fuhrer demonstrates that Cusanuss view of the place of man in the universe is remarkably similar to the view of Aquinas. Fuhrer thereby challenges the prevailing opinion that Cusanus was a Renaissance philosopher dedicated to the philosophy of man and that he was one of the founders of Renaissance humanism. A close examination of the texts of both Aquinas and Cusanus, when compared to some of the leading Renaissance writers, indicates that it is not entirely true that Cusanus was Renaissance in his analysis of the human condition. Because Cusanus's copies of some of the works of Aquinas are still intact and his marginal comments in these manuscripts indicate not only that he read Aquinas carefully, but also actually reacted to texts in Aquinas, it is possible to conduct a study of Cusanus's use of Aquinas based directly on the text of Aquinas. Fuhrer also explores similarities by studying the formulae that both writers used in expressing their respective positions. This book, with its unique examination of the impact of Aquinas's thought upon Cusanus, will appeal to students and scholars of late medieval theology and philosophy.

Autor

Markus Führer is professor of philosophy and chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Inhalt

I. The Nature of Man and his Spiritual DestinyII. The Human Individual III. The Unity of Man’s Soul IV. The Sensible-Corporeal Subordination of the Mind V. Mind–Soul-Body VI. The Rejection of Monopsychism and the Immortality of the Human Mind VII. The Potentiality of the Human Mind as Possibility of Being and Willing All Things VIII.Conclusions

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.2.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: German philosophy • Human nature • Late medieval theology • Nicholas of Cusa • Philosophical Anthropology
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-8741-4 / 0739187414
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-8741-8 / 9780739187418