Game in the ball. About the vision of God: Nikolai Kuzan

The book includes translations into Russian of two works of the outstanding philosopher and church figure of the 15th century. Nikolai Kuzansky (1401-1464), performed by V.V. Bibikhin. The first of them, the dialogue “Game in the ball” (1462-1463), belongs to the late period of the work of Nikolai Kuzansky. In it, he reveals the symbolic meaning of the game he invented in the ball, develops the original doctrine of the world as an intermediary between temporary and eternal, as well as the theory of archetypal and exemplary, demonstrating with their help compatibility with Christian dogma, primarily with faith in Jesus Christ and St. Trinity, natural philosophical hypotheses about the eternity of the world and the world soul. The second essay, the treatise “On the vision of God” (1453), occupies a special place in the philosophical heritage of Nikolai Kuzansky. Representing the lake addressed to the Monambhenedics. Tegernze Guide to contemplate the image of Jesus Christ, it teaches the reader through overcoming the restrictions imposed by sensual experience, to know the endless in the final, eternal in times …

Author
Kuzansky Nikolay
Translator
Bibikhin V.V.
Publisher
Academic Project, 2012
Series
Philosophical technologies