When1: 1440
Who: Nicholas of Cusa
What: philosopher/mathematician
Where: Germany/Italy
works\ Of Learned Ignorance [1440]
Detail: He lived 1401 to 1464 and influenced Council at Basle and later Council of Florence. He combined Thomist scholasticism, Eckhart's mysticism, and science to develop a religious metaphysics.
Epistemology
People cannot know God {docta ignorantia, Nicholas of Cusa} [Nicholas of Cusa, 1440].
Metaphysics
God is one and infinite, uniting all opposites, such as essence and existence. The infinite can realize all possibilities.
World is plural, finite, and filled with opposites.
Mind
Individual person and divine essence are the same.
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