Cusanus: A Legacy of Learned Ignorance

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Preface ix by Morimichi Watanabe Introduction xi by Peter J. Casarella Abbreviations xxxi Nancy Hudson and Frank Tobin 1.   ’    Pater Noster 1 Bernard McGinn 2.     Nicholas of Cusa’s De visione Dei in the History of Western Mysticism 26 Jasper Hopkins 3.   ’       54 Louis Dupré 4.         74 Wilhelm Dupré 5.       Some Remarks on the Meaning of Perfection and World Formation 89 Karsten Harries 6.       : Cusanus and Alberti 105 Walter Andreas Euler 7.           Cribratio alkorani     127 v Il Kim 8.           143 Thomas Prügl 9.         150 Cary J. Nederman 10.    Imperial Authority and National Government in Renaissance Political Thought 178 Paul E. Sigmund 11.     Nicholas of Cusa and John Locke 196 Elizabeth Brient 12.           Three Mathematical Metaphors from De docta ignorantia 210 Regine Kather 13. “     ” The Arguments for the Relativity of Motion in the Cosmology of Nicolaus Cusanus and Their Transformation in Einstein’s Theory of Relativity 226 Suggested Reading 251 List of Contributors 255 Index of Names 261 Index of Subjects 269 vi Contents ...