De concordantia catholica

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The writing De concordantia catholica ( Latin .: "About the all-encompassing unity") was the first great work of Nikolaus von Cues , which he presented in 1433 to the Council of Basel . It consists of three individual books. The first contains an ecclesiology , the second a council theory, the third the proposal for a constitutional reform of the Holy Roman Empire . Book III is preceded by a longer preface ( prooemium ) in which he explains parts of his natural law doctrine and state philosophy. This work contains the best-known theory of the state of the late Middle Ages. Books II and III are also significant in terms of the history of ideas for parliamentarism and representative democracy .

literature

  • De concordantia catholica , ed. Gerhard Kallen (Nicolai de Cusa opera omnia, iussu et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Heidelbergensis ad codicum fidem edita, vol. XIV / 1-4), Hamburg 1964-68.
  • Claudia Lücking-Michel: Concordance and consensus: on social theory in the book "De concordantia catholica" by Nikolaus von Kues (Bonner dogmatische Studien, Vol. 16), Würzburg 1994.
  • Andreas Lukas: Cusanus legal and state thinking in the preface to Book III of the "Concordantia catholica". With translation of the important passages, Nordhausen 2009. ISBN 978-388-309-523-3
  • Henning Ottmann : The conciliarism and the political philosophy of Nikolaus von Kues (1401–1464). In: The History of Political Thought. Volume 2/2: The Middle Ages. Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-347-601-921-9 , pp. 298-318.
  • Andreas Posch: The "Concordantia catholica" of Nikolaus von Kues. Paderborn 1930.