Mariano Álvarez Gómez: Knowledge and Affectivity on Nicholas of Cusa

Abstract

In this text we try to give a testimony, based on a relationship of several decades with Mariano Álvarez Gómez, on his dedication to the thought of Nicholas of Cusa and its diffusion in the Iberian world. While we underline his profound knowledge of the work of the German Cardinal, we sought to show how this knowledge was based on an affective relationship with the thought studied and a network of affections that has been structuring and strengthening in Europe and the rest of the world with the most distinguished specialists in the work of the German Cardinal. He thus credited himself as one of the most respected investigators of his thought, making his life, like Nicholas of Cusa, a «hunt for wisdom,» a work whose translation left us almost at the end of his life, as its author he also wrote it as his philosophical testament.