The Middle Ages · School
Christian Mysticism
Sought the soul's direct union with God; Eckhart spoke in negative terms of a Godhead beyond every determination.
Representative figures · 4
John Scotus Eriugena爱留根纳
The one original philosopher of the Carolingian age, who brought Greek mystical theology into Latin and built a vast system in which God and nature are one.
Meister Eckhart埃克哈特大师
Father of German mysticism, who preached that in the soul's depths there is a spark no different from God, and taught 'letting go' of all things so that God may be born within.
Nicholas of Cusa库萨的尼古拉
'Learned ignorance': God is the coincidence of opposites, the universe has neither centre nor edge, and the infinite is to be approached through mathematical figures.
Blaise Pascal帕斯卡尔
Mathematical prodigy, co-founder of probability, defender of Jansenism; the Pensées ask, with the 'thinking reed' and the 'wager', where humanity stands amid the infinite.