The Second-Person Perspective in the Preface of Nicholas of Cusa's De Visione Dei
In De visione Deis preface, a multidimensional, embodied experience of the second-person perspective becomes the medium by which Nicholas of Cusas audience, the benedictine brothers of Tegernsee, receive answers to questions regarding whether and in what sense mystical theologys divine term is an...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2013]
|
| In: |
European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2013, Volume: 5, Issue: 4, Pages: 145-166 |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (doi) Volltext (teilw. kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | In De visione Deis preface, a multidimensional, embodied experience of the second-person perspective becomes the medium by which Nicholas of Cusas audience, the benedictine brothers of Tegernsee, receive answers to questions regarding whether and in what sense mystical theologys divine term is an object of contemplation, and whether union with God is a matter of knowledge or love. The experience of joint attention that is described in this text is enigmatic (paradoxical, resisting objectification), dynamic (enactive, participatory), integrative (cognitive and affective), and transformative (self- creative). As such, it instantiates the coincidentia oppositorum and docta ignorantia which, for Cusa, alone can give rise to a vision of the infinite. |
|---|---|
| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v5i4.210 |