Middle Ages Unit 2002



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Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) came from Cues on the Mosel River in Western Germany, and played a prominent role in negotiations aimed at healing the gap between the Eastern and Western Churches (which were temporarily at least successful).

  • Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) came from Cues on the Mosel River in Western Germany, and played a prominent role in negotiations aimed at healing the gap between the Eastern and Western Churches (which were temporarily at least successful).
  • His writings covered the theory of knowledge, the nature of the Divine, cosmology, the relations between religious and other matters.

Philosophy of Nature

  • This philosophy proved a new kind of worldview free of religion. They proposed:
  • a new picture of the world in which God and nature and cosmos were a single whole.
  • The Earth was not the center of the Universe.
  • Knowing of the world is possible by sensual perception and reasoning but not by the revelation.
  • Philosophy of nature was born in XVI-XVII centuries in Europe, in Italy in particular. It was mainly concerned with materialistic views.

The Main Representatives Are:

  • Nicolas Copernicus
  • (1473-1543)
  • Galileo Galilei
  • (1564 -1642)
  • Giordano Bruno
  • (1548-1600)

Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) studied in Krakow and in Italy, and was best known as a physician. Copernicus’ new heliocentric system brought him lasting fame.

  • Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) studied in Krakow and in Italy, and was best known as a physician. Copernicus’ new heliocentric system brought him lasting fame.
  • Alongside with the Reformation, there was another upheaval in thinking which was to have a profound impact spiritually, since it displaced humanity from the center of the cosmos.
  • It was the symbolic and metaphysical effect that brought clashes between his worldview and that of the churches.

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