The conjectural art as Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of Others: Tradition and innovation

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D'amico, Claudia
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2021
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In the last chapter of “De coniecturis”, Cusanus exhorts his friend, Cardinal Giuliano Cesarini, to get to know himself. This classical philosophical topic is revisited by Cusanus here in an original manner. On the one hand, Cusanus’ perspective reveals the strong influence of Proclus, which deserves to be highlighted. On the other, unlike Proclus, Cusanus asserts that self-knowledge is explicitly linked to the topic of the human being as created ad imaginem and that of the world as the sphere of contraction. Cusanus bases both subjective matters on the triune principle. According to him, the Divine Trinity is the exemplar that cannot be reached by an image, and the effort to reach the Trinity constitutes the basic requirement for the conjectural construction of the self. Furthermore, the fact that this understanding of the Trinity implies a distinction in itself makes the Trinity the principle of all difference or otherness in plurality. Cusanus concludes that the image can only be constructed relationally, that it is not possible to attain God without a fundamental knowledge of the self as an image, and that no one knows his own self without knowing others at the same time.
Fil: D'amico, Claudia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Centro de Estudios de Filosofía Medieval; Argentina
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Nicholas of Cosa
De coniecturis
Self-knowledge
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spelling The conjectural art as Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of Others: Tradition and innovationD'amico, ClaudiaNicholas of CosaDe coniecturisSelf-knowledgehttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6In the last chapter of “De coniecturis”, Cusanus exhorts his friend, Cardinal Giuliano Cesarini, to get to know himself. This classical philosophical topic is revisited by Cusanus here in an original manner. On the one hand, Cusanus’ perspective reveals the strong influence of Proclus, which deserves to be highlighted. On the other, unlike Proclus, Cusanus asserts that self-knowledge is explicitly linked to the topic of the human being as created ad imaginem and that of the world as the sphere of contraction. Cusanus bases both subjective matters on the triune principle. According to him, the Divine Trinity is the exemplar that cannot be reached by an image, and the effort to reach the Trinity constitutes the basic requirement for the conjectural construction of the self. Furthermore, the fact that this understanding of the Trinity implies a distinction in itself makes the Trinity the principle of all difference or otherness in plurality. Cusanus concludes that the image can only be constructed relationally, that it is not possible to attain God without a fundamental knowledge of the self as an image, and that no one knows his own self without knowing others at the same time.Fil: D'amico, Claudia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Centro de Estudios de Filosofía Medieval; ArgentinaUniversität Trier2021-03info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/164921D'amico, Claudia; The conjectural art as Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of Others: Tradition and innovation; Universität Trier; Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik; 3; 3-2021; 35-492698-492X2698-4938CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.25353/ubtr-izfk-fe4e-c411info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://izfk.uni-trier.de/index.php/izfk/article/view/IZfK-3-The-Conjectural-Art-as-Self-Knowledgeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-29T09:44:12Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/164921instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-29 09:44:12.559CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
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D'amico, Claudia
Nicholas of Cosa
De coniecturis
Self-knowledge
title_short The conjectural art as Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of Others: Tradition and innovation
title_full The conjectural art as Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of Others: Tradition and innovation
title_fullStr The conjectural art as Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of Others: Tradition and innovation
title_full_unstemmed The conjectural art as Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of Others: Tradition and innovation
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv In the last chapter of “De coniecturis”, Cusanus exhorts his friend, Cardinal Giuliano Cesarini, to get to know himself. This classical philosophical topic is revisited by Cusanus here in an original manner. On the one hand, Cusanus’ perspective reveals the strong influence of Proclus, which deserves to be highlighted. On the other, unlike Proclus, Cusanus asserts that self-knowledge is explicitly linked to the topic of the human being as created ad imaginem and that of the world as the sphere of contraction. Cusanus bases both subjective matters on the triune principle. According to him, the Divine Trinity is the exemplar that cannot be reached by an image, and the effort to reach the Trinity constitutes the basic requirement for the conjectural construction of the self. Furthermore, the fact that this understanding of the Trinity implies a distinction in itself makes the Trinity the principle of all difference or otherness in plurality. Cusanus concludes that the image can only be constructed relationally, that it is not possible to attain God without a fundamental knowledge of the self as an image, and that no one knows his own self without knowing others at the same time.
Fil: D'amico, Claudia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Centro de Estudios de Filosofía Medieval; Argentina
description In the last chapter of “De coniecturis”, Cusanus exhorts his friend, Cardinal Giuliano Cesarini, to get to know himself. This classical philosophical topic is revisited by Cusanus here in an original manner. On the one hand, Cusanus’ perspective reveals the strong influence of Proclus, which deserves to be highlighted. On the other, unlike Proclus, Cusanus asserts that self-knowledge is explicitly linked to the topic of the human being as created ad imaginem and that of the world as the sphere of contraction. Cusanus bases both subjective matters on the triune principle. According to him, the Divine Trinity is the exemplar that cannot be reached by an image, and the effort to reach the Trinity constitutes the basic requirement for the conjectural construction of the self. Furthermore, the fact that this understanding of the Trinity implies a distinction in itself makes the Trinity the principle of all difference or otherness in plurality. Cusanus concludes that the image can only be constructed relationally, that it is not possible to attain God without a fundamental knowledge of the self as an image, and that no one knows his own self without knowing others at the same time.
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