CONGETTURE SU DIOSINGOLARITÀ, FINALISMO, POTENZA NELLA TEOLOGIA RAZIONALE DI NICOLA CUSANO

[automatically translated] The subject of the book is the neo-Platonic concept of contraction of the One (contractio in its double movement of one explicatio in the many and complicatio, ie the re-concentration of the many in the One) in its Cusanian formulation. It intends to show how this place under the sign of conjectural knowledge, ie the hypothetical query insuperably character of the experience feeling: in congetturalismo cusaniano it revives and raises and push forward to its developments in modern and contemporary age, 'ancient and fruitful encounter of Platonism with skepticism. The review of Cusanian philosophy is conducted in a perfect comparison with Eriugena, backward, and Leibniz, forward. Thus it is clear that the dialectic of the contraction is characterized by three basic connotations: indivisibility of self-conscious individuals; the contingent character and finalist of the human condition; the centrality of power, which the contraction motor.