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"How To Think the Otherness of Medieval Thought: On Decortian Hermeneutics and Nicholas of Cusa's Manuductive Project"
Such great thinkers as Heraclitus, Socrates, Plato, René Descartes, Benedictus de Spinoza, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Pierre Hadot all agreed that in order to become a philosopher one should undergo a radical change of perspective. This paper tries to effect such a change by reconsidering the traditional approaches toward medieval thought, i.e. Neo-Scholasticism, analytic philosophy and intellectual history, as well as introducing a corrective methodology. I mainly focus on the question of how we can approach the genuinely Other as the Other. I argue that a rationality that is able to think difference or transcendence is far from being the exclusive possession of post-modern philosophies. Based on an existential hermeneutics, in this respect we can still learn from medievals. My approach has been inspired by the work of Jos Decorte (1954–2001), a Flemish scholar at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) as well as the work of the medieval thinker Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464).
Co-sponsored by the TTU Medieval and Renaissance Studies Center
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Posted:
4/17/2015
Originator:
Debrajean Wheeler Wheeler
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Department:
Philosophy
Event Information
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Event Date: 4/17/2015
Location:
PHIL 264
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