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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2023] The Argumentative Power (and Weakness) of Facticity in the Political Action of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)
DESCRIPTION:In the preface to De concordantia catholica, Nicholas of Cusa anticipates readers’ surprise at the wealth of previously unknown sources that he, a German, has carefully collected, many from the armories of old cloisters where they had long been forgotten. He stresses that the quotations in his treatise were from originals and not from anthologies or abbreviated collections, and hence are trustworthy. It was characteristic of Cusanus, then a jurist who would later became a papal legate, bishop, prince, and cardinal, to try to invalidate prevailing narratives by way of reference to real events, past and present. The sources Nicholas of Cusa collected evoked a sense of the factual that supported his claims to truth and his demands for justice and reform. Not everyone recognized the facts he presented as true in every situation, however, and some questioned their weighting or contested them outright. For Cusanus, this represented an ever-present challenge, and, in the final years of his life, led to feelings of persecution and failure. The interlinking of extensive information, facticity, evidence and truth that emerged in the late Middle Ages – and that Nicholas of Cusa used to develop his own unique approach – resulted in insurmountable resistance to some of his positions. But he was also a political actor who knew how to employ information strategically, withholding it or pretending to lack it whenever expedient. In this section, we consider the documents, letters and treatises of Cusanus in understanding the handling of information, the argumentative power (and weakness) of facticity, its relation to truth and faith, and the struggle for credibility and authority in the 15th century.
Der Beitrag The Argumentative Power (and Weakness) of Facticity in the Political Action of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2023.
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