Nicholas of Cusa and the Aristotelian Tradition : : A Philosophical and Theological Survey / / ed. by Emmanuele Vimercati, Valentina Zaffino.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Fiamma, Andrea,; Gili, Luca,; Kny, Christian,; Krieger, Gerhard,; Mandrella, Isabelle,; Monaco, Davide,; Moritz, Arne,; Perkams, Matthias,; Roelli, Philipp,; Spieth, Alexander,; Vimercati, Emmanuele,; Zaffino, Valentina,
• HerausgeberIn: Vimercati, Emmanuele,; Zaffino, Valentina,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Veröffentlichungen des Grabmann-Institutes zur Erforschung der mittelalterlichen Theologie und Philosophie : Münchener Universitätsschriften / Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät , 64
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 242 p.)

The volume focuses on the relation between Cusanus and Aristotle or the Aristotelian tradition. In recent years the attention on this topic has partially increased, but overall the scholarship results are still partial or provisional. The book thus aims at verifying more systematically how Aristotle...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• A Sketch of the Aristotelian Tradition in Cusanus’ Time
• With Aristotle, Beyond Aristotle
• “… to reject Aristotle and to leap higher.”
• Aristotelische Naturphilosophie als Quelle und Medium der Explikation der cusanischen Lehre vom Unendlichen und der Koinzidenz der Gegensätze
• Strategien des Umgangs mit aristotelischen Positionen in Cusanus’ Idiota de mente
• Cusanus on Ideas and Aristotelianism
• Nicholas of Cusa and the Aristotelian Theory of Substance
• Act and Potency in Cusanus’ Later Thought
• „Bene et feliciter subsistere“
• Was ist eine gerechte Herrschaft?
• (Anti‐)Aristotelianism in Cusanus’ Sermons
• Index of Proper Names
• Index of Passages
• Notes on Contributors