Abstract

NUNEZ, Rodrigo. Nihil maius. Maximitas dei in unum argumentum of Anselm’s Proslogion and Nicholas of Cusa’s De docta ignorantia. Scripta Mediaevalia [online]. 2021, vol.14, n.2, pp.107-126. ISSN 1851-8753.  http://dx.doi.org/10.48162/rev.35.008.

This article explores a relationship between the notion of maximitas dei in the unum argumentum of the Anselm’s Proslogion and by Nicholas of Cusa’s De docta ignorantia. Although the explicit anselmian allusions in works of the Cusano do not allow to speak a direct influence, it is tried to show how both authors come together in the speculative yield around the negativity of the maximitas dei.

Keywords : Nicholas of Cusa; Anselm of Canterbury; maximitas dei; coincidence of opposites; learned ignorance.

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