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.
