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Author Führer, M. L. (Markus Lorenz)

Title Echoes of Aquinas in Cusanus's vision of man / Markus Führer
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 201 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Nature of Man and His Spiritual Destiny; 2 Man in Relation to the Universe; 3 The Human Individual; 4 The Unity of Man's Soul; 5 The Sensible-Corporeal Subordination of the Mind; 6 Mind-Soul-Body; 7 The Rejection of Monopsychism and the Immortality of the Human Mind; 8 The Potentiality of the Human Mind as Possibility of Being and Willing All Things; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Subjects
Summary This book examines the influence of Saint Thomas Aquinas upon Nicholas of Cusa's (Cusanus) doctrine of human nature. It explores this influence against the background of other authors associated with Cusanus' own generation of philosophers in order to demonstrate the uniqueness of Cusanus' use of Aquinas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-193) and indexes
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Subject Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464.
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 -- Influence
SUBJECT Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464 fast
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 fast
Subject Theological anthropology -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Anthropology.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020738507
ISBN 9780739187418
0739187414
0739187406
9781306582520
1306582520
9780739187401