Точка как символ Абсолюта и проекция божественных атрибутов в концепции Николая Кузанского

Abstract

The article deals with the interpretation of the concept of “point” in the philosophical and reli-gious system of Nicholas of Cusa, for whom this category was a mode of divine reality. The point is represented as a mathematical symbol filled with metaphysical meaning and associated with the idea of God. The author shows the primacy of mathematics in the concept of the philosopher, its fundamental role in the knowledge of the Absolute, which is proved by a huge number of examples in his writings that reveal certain theological postulates through the explication of metamorphoses of geometric figures. In the teaching of Cusa, the straight line, circle, triangle and other objects coincide in infinity, compressed into a point, and this demonstrates that any antinomies are overcome in God. The point denotes the beginning and the end, unity and plurality at the same time, and this shows their equivalence to each other, revealing the paradox and ambivalence of their nature, which turns out to be relevant to divine attributes. The creator, qualified as a maximum, is the same as the minimum, associated with infinity folded into a point. The point is positioned as an internal principle of the universe, and this makes it a derivative of the original divine unity of opposites, which are united in the transcendent and incomprehensible God as the source of existence.