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Tradition and Identity: The Architecture of Greek Churches in Cyprus (14th to 16th Centuries)

in his sermons. Gerhard Krieger’s essay, “Was ist eine gerechte Herrschaft?” and its accompanying bibliography is useful for the way Nicholas connects his ethics of equality and his political thought. Nicholas underscores the notion of active equality as expressed for individuals in the golden rule, and Krieger remarks how Nicholas’s founding of the St. Nikolaus Hospital (still in Bernkastel-Kues today) is an example in his own life of what Nicholas intended. He also quotes Nicholas’s idea that justice is founded on the golden rule—both as an internal principle and a condition of acting for and with others as one’s equals. He describes Nicholas thus as seeing political life founded both on the necessity to live together voluntarily and equally in community and on the political and moral duty of freedom under political rule. Taken as a whole, then, no one reading all the essays could deny Nicholas’s respect for Aristotle. But neither could they affirm that the Cusan is an Aristotelian and not a Neoplatonist. It would not be a negative judgment to say that their essays demonstrate exactly how and why Aristotle figures in Nicholas’s thought, but only, as it were, at its edges, not its heart. The cumulative effect of these essays thus ends up underscoring exactly what scholarship on Nicholas has almost always indicated about his thought having basically Neoplatonic roots.