docta ignorantia (English spelling) doctaignorantia

Japanese: docta ignorantia(英語表記)doctaignorantia
docta ignorantia (English spelling) doctaignorantia

… Pietism [Kanteru Ueda]
[Modern and contemporary mystical movements and their surroundings]
Western mysticism after the Renaissance focused on the relationship between wisdom and mystical experience, in keeping with the spirit of the times. Representatives of this movement include Nicholas of Cusanus, who sought to understand God as the "coincidence of opposites" through knowledge beyond knowledge, that is, the "docta ignorantia" (knowledge of ignorance), and Spinoza, who emphasized reason. This trend therefore overlapped with occultism, which rediscovered ancient wisdom, and separated and developed through the Hermetic thought of Ficino and others, who revived the mystical philosophy of Egypt and Greece, into Rosicrucian thought (Rosicrucian Order) by J. Dee and J. V. Andreae, and Martinism represented by Martinez de Pascali and Saint-Martin.

From Nicholas of Cusanus

…Human reason starts from the finite and approaches the knowledge of the infinite reflected therein, but it can never grasp God, who transcends all proportions. However, this ignorance is not mere ignorance, but an ignorance that deepens as one approaches God, and in that sense it is a “docta ignorantia.” On the other hand, God, who is transcendent and incomprehensible, reveals himself in the world. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "docta ignorantia" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…敬虔主義【上田 閑照】
【近・現代における神秘主義運動とその周辺】
 ルネサンス以降の西欧の神秘主義は,時代精神にふさわしく叡智と神秘体験のかかわりに注目した。知識を超えた知識,すなわち〈無知の知docta ignorantia〉によって〈反対の一致coincidentia oppositorum〉たる神を認識しようとしたニコラウス・クサヌスや,理性を重要視したスピノザがその代表者である。したがって,この潮流は太古の叡智を再発見するオカルティズムとも重なり,エジプトやギリシアの神秘哲学を再興するフィチーノらのヘルメス思想を経由して,J.ディーやJ.V.アンドレーエによる薔薇十字思想(薔薇十字団),マルティネス・ド・パスカリやサン・マルタンを代表とするマルティニスムなどへ分離発展した。…

【ニコラウス・クサヌス】より

…人間理性は有限者から出発して,そこで反映されている無限者の認識に近づくのであるが,すべての比例を超越する神を把握することは決してできない。しかし,この無知は単なる無知ではなく,神へと近づくにつれて深まる無知であり,その意味で〈知ある無知docta ignorantia〉である。他方,超越的で知り尽くしがたい神は,世界においてみずからを顕示する。…

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