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Author:   Paula Pico Estrada
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   335
Weight:   0.547kg
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9789004412507

ISBN 10:   9004412506
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   25 November 2021
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Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction  1 Previous Scholarship on Cusanus’ Conception of the Human Mind  2 Contents and Approach 1 The Metaphysical Foundations of Human Nature  1 The Apparent Lack of Completion of the Universe  2 The Cosmological Need for Perfect Humanity  3 The Perfection of the Universe  4 Summary 2 The Innate Power of Judgment as the Human Mind’s Guiding Principle  1 De concordantia catholica (1433)  2 De docta ignorantia (1440)  3 Idiota. De sapientia (1450)  4 Idiota. De mente (1450)  5 De pace fidei (1454)  6 De ludo globi (1462)  7 De venatione sapientiae (1463)  8 Summary 3 The Innate Knowledge of the Power of Judgment  1 Innatism in Idiota. de Mente  2 The Innatism of the Virtues  3 The Innate Power of Judgment and Intellectual Memory  4 Summary 4 Oneness: The Cognitive Dimension of the Innate Power of Judgment  1 The Limits of Human Knowledge  2 The Symbolic Procedure  3 The Mind as imago Dei  4 Triunity and Movement  5 To Know Is to Number  6 Number, Freedom, and Creativity  7 Summary 5 Equality: The Social Dimension of the Innate Power of Judgment  1 The Principle of Self-Preservation  2 Triunity and Justice  3 Body and Soul  4 Freedom  5 Summary 6 Love: The Affective Dimension of the Innate Power of Judgment  1 Affectus in Cusanus’ Writings Previous to 1452  2 The Debate over the Primacy of Intellectus or Affectus  3 Faith  4 Love  5 Summary Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Paula Pico Estrada, Ph.D. (2016, University of Buenos Aires), is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the Universidad del Salvador and at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, both in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has translated into Spanish Nicholas of Cusa’s De visione Dei, Compendium, and De Staticis Experimentis, as well as some of his letters to the Tegernsee monks, and has published more than twenty-five articles and book chapters on Cusanus’ anthropology. She coauthored Language, Logic and Ontology in Five Medieval Thinkers (Lenguaje, lógica y ontología en cinco pensadores medievales: Buenos Aires, Baudino Ediciones, 2011).

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