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https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8247659

Nicolaus Cusanus Unbound: An Investigation into Parallels between his Liberal Philosophy and Object-Oriented Ontology

Naruhiko Mikado ; Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Sažetak

This paper intends to reexamine the idiosyncratic thoughts of Nicholaus Cusanus (Nicholas of Cusa), a fifteenth-century German theologian-cum-philosopher who has generally been considered to be just a transitional figure to the succeeding, modern thinkers. The chief argument of this essay is that his conception of God as both immanent and transcendent has a number of interesting parallels with contemporary, de-anthropocentric philosophies, especially with Graham Harman’s object-oriented ontology (OOO), and in fact can be regarded as a prescient harbinger to OOO in that Nicholas evidently urges one to assume a more liberal worldview while simultaneously equipping his own theory with a logic intelligible to others. In the closing section, the author of this paper poses a few proposals drawn from the investigation both to the discipline of philosophy and to the general public.

Ključne riječi

Nicholas of Cusa; Object-Oriented Ontology; Graham Harman; flat ontology; withdrawal.

Hrčak ID:

221334

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/221334

Datum izdavanja:

8.6.2019.

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