TY - JOUR

T1 - Leo Catana, 'Coincidence of opposites

T2 - Cusanian and non-Cusanian interpretations in the thought of Bruno'

AU - Catana, Leo

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - When Cusanus scholarship emerged in the nineteenth century, it conformed with prevailing requirements for analysis in history of philosophy. Scholars thus strove to identify Cusanus’ system of philosophy and its all-embracing principle, the coincidentia oppositorum. Bruno’s texts were subjected to the same method. Cusanus’ doctrine of coincidentia oppositorum was thus regarded as a crucial principle in Bruno’s system of philosophy and is still regarded in this way. The author argues that these historiographical requirements rest on an erroneous assumption, namely that pre-seventeenth-century thinkers intended to develop systems of philosophy. He points out its distorting, interpretative consequences in the case of Bruno

AB - When Cusanus scholarship emerged in the nineteenth century, it conformed with prevailing requirements for analysis in history of philosophy. Scholars thus strove to identify Cusanus’ system of philosophy and its all-embracing principle, the coincidentia oppositorum. Bruno’s texts were subjected to the same method. Cusanus’ doctrine of coincidentia oppositorum was thus regarded as a crucial principle in Bruno’s system of philosophy and is still regarded in this way. The author argues that these historiographical requirements rest on an erroneous assumption, namely that pre-seventeenth-century thinkers intended to develop systems of philosophy. He points out its distorting, interpretative consequences in the case of Bruno

M3 - Journal article

VL - XVII

SP - 381

EP - 400

JO - Bruniana & Campanelliana

JF - Bruniana & Campanelliana

SN - 1125-3819

IS - 2

ER -