Idea of Endless on Example of Nikola Kuzanski and its Negative Meaning in Relation to Human Cognition

Abstract

The work takes as a theme the basic ontological and cosmological components of Nikola Kuzanski, the thinker which, although deliberating from within the frameworks of Medieval philosophy, through his questions about reality, the world/universe and God, and by addressing his interest exactly to crucial questions about man, reached important and new solutions in interpretation of the world and man. Special interest is paid to consideration of the key notions of Nikola Kuzanski's philosophy - docta ignorantia, coincidentia oppositorum, non-aliud etc. - with the goal of examining the position of man in the newly developed image of reality, his (in)abilities of comprehending the endless truth and perceiving the consequences of his conception of endlessness on human cognition and existence.