Leo Catana, 'Coincidence of opposites: Cusanian and non-Cusanian interpretations in the thought of Bruno'
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Leo Catana, 'Coincidence of opposites : Cusanian and non-Cusanian interpretations in the thought of Bruno'. / Catana, Leo.
In: Bruniana e Campanelliana, Vol. XVII, No. 2, 2011, p. 381-400.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Leo Catana, 'Coincidence of opposites
T2 - Cusanian and non-Cusanian interpretations in the thought of Bruno'
AU - Catana, Leo
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - When Cusanus scholarship emerged in the nineteenth century, it conformed with prevailing requirements for analysis in history of philosophy. Scholars thus strove to identify Cusanus’ system of philosophy and its all-embracing principle, the coincidentia oppositorum. Bruno’s texts were subjected to the same method. Cusanus’ doctrine of coincidentia oppositorum was thus regarded as a crucial principle in Bruno’s system of philosophy and is still regarded in this way. The author argues that these historiographical requirements rest on an erroneous assumption, namely that pre-seventeenth-century thinkers intended to develop systems of philosophy. He points out its distorting, interpretative consequences in the case of Bruno
AB - When Cusanus scholarship emerged in the nineteenth century, it conformed with prevailing requirements for analysis in history of philosophy. Scholars thus strove to identify Cusanus’ system of philosophy and its all-embracing principle, the coincidentia oppositorum. Bruno’s texts were subjected to the same method. Cusanus’ doctrine of coincidentia oppositorum was thus regarded as a crucial principle in Bruno’s system of philosophy and is still regarded in this way. The author argues that these historiographical requirements rest on an erroneous assumption, namely that pre-seventeenth-century thinkers intended to develop systems of philosophy. He points out its distorting, interpretative consequences in the case of Bruno
M3 - Journal article
VL - XVII
SP - 381
EP - 400
JO - Bruniana & Campanelliana
JF - Bruniana & Campanelliana
SN - 1125-3819
IS - 2
ER -
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