IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 2022: Nicholas of Cusa, I: Nicholas of Cusa between Platonism and Aristotelianism

Sponsor:	Cusanus Society of UK & Ireland
Organiser:	Simon Burton, Wydział 'Artes Liberales', Uniwersytet Warszawski
Moderator/Chair:	William P. Hyland, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews
Paper 2022-a	The Platonic Turn: The Role of Platonism in Cusanus's De principio (Language: English) Luca Burzelli, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Index terms: Philosophy, Religious Life, Theology
Paper 2022-b	Cusanus, Reader of Aristotle's Metaphysics: The Marginalia of the Codex Cusanus 184 (Bernkastel-Kues, St Nikolaus-Hospital) (Language: English) Salvatore Carannante, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Index terms: Philosophy, Religious Life, Theology
Paper 2022-c	Nicholas of Cusa's Hermeneutics of Polytheism (Language: English) Félix Resch, Faculté Notre-Dame Collège des Bernardins Paris Index terms: Philosophy, Religious Life, Theology
Abstract	This session will approach the question of the ongoing influence that the availability of new texts, whether in the Aristotelian or Platonic tradition, had on the philosophical thought of Cusanus. It will view the way that Cusanus digested newly available texts, and how they led him to take up new metaphysical positions. Close study of his works reveals that Cusanus' metaphysical ideas evolved, and a close examination of the marginalia of certain manuscripts sheds light on this process as it happened.