Mathematical theologies: Nicholas of Cusa and the legacy of Thierry of Chartres

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (06) ◽  
pp. 52-3038-52-3038
2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (127) ◽  
pp. 257
Author(s):  
José Teixeira Neto

Em artigo publicado em 1909, Pierre Duhem “acusou” Nicolau de Cusa de haver “plagiado” Thierry de Chartres. O que chamou a sua atenção foi o fato do De opere sex dierum libellus de Thierry se concluir com uma doutrina trinitária, de aparência pitagórica, na qual a eternidade de Deus se deduz da unidade, enquanto que a geração do Verbo pelo Pai é comparada à produção da própria igualdade pela unidade. No caso do Cusano, essa mesma doutrina aparecerá no primeiro livro do De docta ignorantia (capítulos VII e VIII). Não pretendemos aqui aprofundar nem a doutrina trinitária de Thierry e nem a de Nicolau, mas oportunamente mostraremos que Nicolau de Cusa se apropria dos termos Unitas-Aequalitas-Connexio a partir dos quais especula sobre a Trindade e que o juízo de Duhem sobre a relação entre os dois pensadores precisaria ser repensado.Abstract: In an article published in 1909, Pierre Duhem “accused” Nicholas of Cusa of having”plagiarized” Thierry of Chartres. What caught his attention was the fact that Thierry of Chartres’ De opere sex dierum libellus concluded with a Trinitarian doctrine of Pythagorean appearance, in which the eternity of God is inferred from the unit, while the generation of the Word of the Father is compared to the generation of equality by oneness. In the case of Cusano, the same doctrine appears in the first book of De docta ignorantia (Chapters VII and VIII). We do not intend here to further the authors’ Trinitarian doctrine, we will show, however, that Nicholas de Cusa employs the terms Unitas-Aequalitas-Connexio from which he speculates on the Trinity and that Duhem’s opinion on the relationship between both thinkers ought to be rethought.


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 150-150
Author(s):  
Susan Ford
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Review(s) of: Thierry of Chartres: The commentary on the De arithmetica of Boethius, edited with an introduction by Irene Caiazzo (Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2015) hardcover, xii + 262 pages, RRP euro90.00; ISBN: 9780888441911.


Author(s):  
Richard Oosterhoff

Lefèvre described his own mathematical turn as a kind of conversion. This chapter explains what motivated his turn to mathematics, considering the place of mathematics in fifteenth-century Paris in relation to court politics and Lefèvre’s own connections to Italian humanists. But more importantly, Lefèvre’s attitude to learning and the propaedeutic value of mathematics drew on the context of late medieval spiritual reform, with its emphasis on conversion and care of the soul. In particular, Lefèvre’s turn to university reform seems to have responded to the works of Ramon Lull, alongside the devotio moderna and Nicholas of Cusa, which he printed in important collections. With such influences, Lefèvre chose the university as the site for intellectual reform.


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