Nicholas of Cusa’s Idiota against the backdrop of his Sermons

Even a cursory reading of Cusanus’s Sermons shows that he often makes use of his principal philosophical ideas. Now that a complete edition of the Sermons is available, it may be worth comparing them with his philosophi-cal and theological works, in order to find out when his ideas first found their expression and how they evolved over time. As an example, in this pa-per I compare a number of themes contained in the Idiota dialogues, written in 1450, with the Sermons written in the years before that, specifically be-tween 1443 and 1450.