Week 6 Post 4

Nicolas of Cusa believed that the wise man was a man of learned ignorance. His doctrine of learned ignorance says, a wise man, "is a man who has become aware of his ignorance regarding what the Divine Nature is and what the precise essence of any given finite thing is." Nicolas believed that the human mind was ignorant of God. That the human mind could never come to understand God because God was not a physical Being, but a spiritual one. Learned ignorance is knowing that one cannot understand God, or all of the reasons why God does the things that he does.

I believe that Nicolas was right. I think that there are certain things in this universe that will never be able to be explained, and I think that proves the existence of God. However, this is not a widely held idea by those in the field of science. Scientists believe that everything can be and eventually will be figured out. I personally believe and hope that there are things such as the human brain which will never be able to be solved.