Pursuit of Wisdom and Quantum Ontology

TL;DR

This paper explores how Cusanus's theological ideas about wisdom and the fundamental nature of reality align with modern quantum ontology and quantum gravity theories, suggesting a deep philosophical connection.

Contribution

It draws novel parallels between Cusanus's doctrine of wisdom and contemporary quantum theories, highlighting a timeless philosophical insight into the nature of being and possibility.

Findings

Modern science reflects Cusanus's idea of a fundamental reality underlying all existence.

Quantum ontology and gravity theories resonate with the concept of an omnipotent oneness.

The ultimate ground of reality is an infinite, timeless fund containing all possibilities.

Abstract

In his late work (De venatione sapientiae), Cusanus unfolded basic ideas of his brilliant theology. After a long period, this ingenious teaching became clearly recognizable especially in our time. Forward with his face to the back, modern scientific theory adopts nowadays a course to which Cusanus had already pointed centuries ago. Modern thought revolves with unexpected precision and unexpected mysteriousness around two issues of his doctrine of wisdom: (i) The possibility-of-being-made is not a figment of the human brain by which it organizes one's thoughts, but a fundamental and indispensable manifestation of reality. (ii) The possibility-of-being-made refers to something antecedent by which both the feasibility and the being-made get their common shape. This ultimate ground embodies the omnipotent oneness in the form of an infinite fund in which the cause of all reality and of all possibility is timelessly stored. Comparisons with the quantum ontology and the theory of quantum gravity impose themselves.