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In her international webcast,
Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche referenced the
importance of Pope Leo XIV’s speech on Oct. 25, in front of thousands
assembled at St. Peter’s Square, where he talked about the founder of
modern science and great Renaissance thinker, Nicholas of Cusa. Pope
Leo XIV had said that during the fifteenth century, in Cusa’s time,
many people lived in fear, took up arms against each other, and looked
at their neighbors with general distrust and suspicion, while Cusa,
“believed in humanity.” Pope Leo XIV said that Cusa “understood that
there are opposites which must be held together.”
Nicholas of Cusa’s philosophical
breakthrough, which he developed throughout the course of the Council
of Florence from 1431-1445, was his method of the Coincidence of Opposites. Helga Zepp-LaRouche described this method
in-depth on her international webcast. The Coincidence of Opposites
is, “a method of thinking [of] how you [can avoid getting] get stuck
in the nitty-gritties of this problem or that problem, but how you can
train your mind to think the one. This is extremely important. The
Pope applies it very clearly to the political situation, because,
obviously, If you look at every conflict in the world today, if you
look at the situation in the Middle East or Ukraine or the Caribbean,
if you only look at the facts, the history of the crisis, the tensions
and the personalities involved, you will never find an adequate
solution. But if you start totally the other way around, if you think
the one first, in this case the one humanity—that which unites us
all—and then from that elevated point of view look at the concrete
crisis, you can always find a solution…. You can apply that method to
any problem, to politics, economics, military issues, social issues,
cultural issues, because it is a way of conflict resolution which does
exactly that: that the hope of synthesizing the next step of the
evolution of the development of mankind, you can see something that
does not exist but which can be brought about by people of good will
by concerted efforts. So, this is a very beautiful
intervention…"
The revival of Nicholas of Cusa’s
philosophy is one of the most profound questions which will determine
the durable survival of all of humanity, during a time when
geopolitical divisions are at their height, and when the prospect of
thermonuclear war is incredibly high. While a step back from the brink
has taken place today, with the meeting of President Donald Trump and
Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC Summit in South Korea, what
is needed is a move towards durable survival between
nations.
Civilizations have collapsed, not
out of fate, but based on whether a culture was capable of rejecting
its flawed axiomatic beliefs, and proceeding to a higher solution
which seemed impossible before. This is what Nicholas of Cusa
pioneered, when he engineered the successful Council of Florence which
resolved the schism between both the Western and Eastern Churches. We
can do the same today, following the approach of Helga Zepp-LaRouche,
and Nicholas of Cusa.
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