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                                                                                    <journal-title>Sakarya Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">2146-9806</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">1304-6535</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Sakarya Üniversitesi</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17335/sakaifd.1067452</article-id>
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                                    <trans-title>Existence and Intellect in Nicholas of Cusa</trans-title>
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                                                                                                                                                                                                <article-title>Nicholas of Cusa’da Varlık ve İdrak</article-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0725-1588</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Topaloğlu</surname>
                                    <given-names>Fatih</given-names>
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                                                                    <aff>Trabzon Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20220615">
                    <day>06</day>
                    <month>15</month>
                    <year>2022</year>
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                                        <volume>24</volume>
                                        <issue>45</issue>
                                        <fpage>211</fpage>
                                        <lpage>234</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20220202">
                        <day>02</day>
                        <month>02</month>
                        <year>2022</year>
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                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20220413">
                        <day>04</day>
                        <month>13</month>
                        <year>2022</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2001, Sakarya Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2001</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Sakarya Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi</copyright-holder>
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                            <p>The issue of the nature of existence is directly related to the way in which man deals with existence. What makes a difference between the schools in the history of philosophy is their attitudes towards this issue. In the thought of Nicholas of Cusa, existence is not something that a person can realize with purely epistemic abilities. Therefore, Absolute Being cannot be grasped in its own perfection as it is. What is primarily necessary for this is a kind of intellectual purification in which the reason renounces all affirmative claims of knowledge. This actually is a state of consciousness and the intellect that reaches this level contemplates existence at its source. In this state, where opposites appear in harmony and plurality in unity without any contradiction, God is no longer a subject of knowledge but a subject of experience. According to Cusa, only an intellectual comprehension can be achieved with a mystical view of being based on the inner experience of the human being in this way. The main thing is not knowing anymore but knowing that you can never know. According to Cusa, the way to reach this level of understanding is divine grace as well as spiritual education.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                                                                                                    <abstract><p>Varlığın mahiyeti meselesi, insanın varlığa hangi açıdan muhatap olduğu ile doğrudan ilgilidir. Felsefe tarihinde ortaya çıkmış olan farklı ekoller arasındaki ayrımı oluşturan da, temelde bu mesele karşısındaki tutumlarıdır. Nicholas of Cusa düşüncesinde varlık, insanın salt epistemik yetileri ile vukufiyet kesp edebileceği bir alan değildir. Bundan dolayı Mutlak Varlık, olduğu haliyle kendi mükemmelliği içerisinde kavranamaz. Bunun için öncelikli olarak gerekli olan, aklın bütün olumlayıcı bilgi iddialarından vazgeçtiği bir tür zihinsel arınmadır. Bu, aslında bir bilinç durumudur ve bu düzeye erişen idrak, varlığı kendi kaynağında temaşa eder. Zıtlığın uyumda, çoğulluğun ise birlikte herhangi bir çelişki olmaksızın göründüğü bu hâl içerisinde, Tanrı artık bir bilgi konusu olmanın ötesinde bir tecrübe konusudur. Cusa’ya göre, insanın iç tecrübesinden hareket eden mistik karakterli bir varlık görüşü ile ancak idrake dayalı yetkin bir bilinç sağlanabilir. Burada artık asıl olan bilme değil, asla bilemeyeceğini bilmedir. Cusa’ya göre, bu idraki seviyeye ulaşmanın yolu ruhsal bir eğitimin yanında Tanrısal lütuftur.</p></abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Din Felsefesi</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Nicholas of Cusa</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Varlık</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  İdrak</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Akıl</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>Philosophy of Religion</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Nicholas of Cusa</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Existence</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Intellect</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Reason</kwd>
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