Originalidad de la metafísica cusana:: la negación en cuanto principio primero

Abstract

Our paper will be developed in three moments. First, we will present the originality of Nicholas de Cusa’s thought (1401-1464) expressed in his formula “about learned ignorance”, that is to say, on the knowledge of not knowing as it is the irreplaceable resource to express the absolute perfection of the beginning of everything: God. In a second moment we will show how this originality differs from the scholastic tradition elaborated by both Albertus Magnus and Thomas of Aquinas, appealing to the metaphysics of being proposed by Aristotle.Thirdly, we will present passages from Cusanus‘s later works, in which the principle of negation is reelaborated and thematically deepened. Our aspiration is that this path through Cusanus´s texts provides us with a complete image of the deep originality of Cusanus´s thought.