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Anselm | |
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Life and Works | |
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Anselm's Fundamental Philosophical Idea | |
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Inward quietness, not mysticism | |
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Insight and empty thought | |
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A unique idea, meaningful only in relation to God | |
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No object | |
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Anselm's "theory of contradiction" | |
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Anselm's thought as an invocation of God | |
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The significance of his "proof" in Anselm's life | |
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Gaunilon against Anselm | |
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Characterization of Anselm's Thinking | |
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Nicholas of Cusa | |
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Introduction | |
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Life | |
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Works | |
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Philosophical Speculation | |
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The Fundamental Idea | |
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The Mind | |
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The mind in general | |
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Cognition as conjecture (coniectura) | |
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Methods and aim | |
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Faith | |
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Introduction | |
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What is faith? | |
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Revealed faith and philosophical faith, theological and philosophical thinking | |
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Speculative metaphor (cipher) and revealed bodily presence (spatiotemporal reality) | |
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Whence comes the content of faith? | |
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Authority and originality | |
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Faith and obedience | |
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Truth in Mathematics | |
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The Whole of Being | |
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God | |
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Dialogue on the hidden God | |
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On speculation | |
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Examples of speculative attempts to approach God | |
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From speculative thinking to acceptance of revelation | |
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Example of a conceptualization of revelation: the Trinity | |
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The World | |
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The cosmos | |
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Cosmological ideas | |
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The eternity of the world | |
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Individuals | |
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Summary: The significance of Cusanus' world | |
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Christ | |
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Nicholas of Cusa and Modern Science | |
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Did Cusanus help to found modern science? | |
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Speculative method and experimental method. So-called "anticipations" | |
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The meaning of science | |
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Man's Task | |
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The Individual | |
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Peace | |
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Fundamental reality of the Church. Cusanus' thinking in the Concordantia | |
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De concordantia catholica | |
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De pace fidei | |
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Faith and communication | |
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Political Action and the Conduct of Life | |
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The Council of Basel | |
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Brixen | |
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The reform movement | |
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The crusade against the Turks | |
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Ecclesiastical benefices | |
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His conduct of life--summary | |
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His Place in History | |
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Between the Middle Ages and the modern era | |
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On historical interpretation | |
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Cusanus' life and thought in relation to subsequent history | |
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Lack of influence | |
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Critical Estimate | |
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The Meaning of Criticism | |
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The significance of Cusanus' contradictions | |
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The philosophical limits disclosed in Cusanus' life, ciphers and speculation | |
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Cusanus the man | |
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Cusanus' greatness lies in his metaphysics | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index of Names | |