The line of investigation of consciousness through consciousness itself in European philosophy is represented by the doctrines elaborated as an answer to the question: “What in my consciousness is determined by consciousness itself, and not by the world?” The names of Descartes, Kant, and Husserl mark the most significant moments in the development of this line. This line is opposed to the...
The common basis underlying a philosophical exploration of Nicholas of Cusa and Ibn 'ArabT could perhaps be presented in the form of two closely linked assertions: first, the thesis that God is indefinable, and, second, a formula which states that the world is not God but is not anything other than God. These assertions were certainly not unknown to medieval thinkers, but it was the mystical...