A MÍSTICA ESPECULATIVA A PARTIR DA METÁFORA DO OLHAR EM DE VISIONE DEI DE NICOLAU DE CUSA (1401-1464): speculative mystic based on the metaphor of gaze in de visione dei by Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Klédson Tiago Alves de
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Trilhas Filosóficas (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.apps.uern.br/index.php/RTF/article/view/2402
• topic: Nicolau de Cusa; Mí­stica; Especulação; O olhar de Deus; Nicholas of Cusa; Mysticism; Speculation; The gaze of God

This article explains the mystical-speculative experience that Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) proposes to the monks of Tegernsee to lead them to "sacred obscurity" or "mystical theology". The author was motivated by the prominent discussion from fifteenth century, about whether one should understand the contemplative view in a merely affective or intellectual way. This debate involved two major thinkers from both perspectives, Vicente de Aggsbach and Gerson, respectively. After an exchange of letters, Nicholas of Cusa sent to the Benedictine monks the De visione dei (1453) and a painting that represents "the figure of an omnivoyant" that he called "Icon of God". Thus, from the experience of looking at a painting, whose technique brings the peculiarity of the painted look accompany the one who looks at it, Nicholas leads them to speculating about the experience of the gaze of God that does not abandon and accompanies each and every one. Therefore, the path proposed in De visione dei is a true "guiding by hand" (Manuductio) so that monks, according to their abilities, reach the mystical experience: from the finite look of the painting to the infinite gaze that is the very God"™s gaze. Therefore, the article, within the scope of the philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa, shows the reflexive path that starts from the experience of finitude until the highest and deepest speculation that man can make: contemplating the divine.