Apply Lyn’s shockwave idea of the ‘stretto’ to Nicholas of Cusa’s discovery of principle regarding his concept of self-government for the Bishops of the Church, which he developed in Concordantia Catholica.
The question Cusa posed was how can the Church become self-governed through the Pope in concordance with the other Bishops? Cusa took the idea of St. Paul’s Agape and the Platonic Good (Agathos) and unified them with the idea of the consent of the governed.
He understood that for the Good to be incarnated into the universe under the condition of change, it had to relate to mankind through Christ via Agape. However, the relationship to mankind also required that the Good be self-subsisting; therefore, the concept of self-subsistence was contracted through the function of change, which is characteristic of the axiomatic stretto motion of enfolding-unfolding. And so, the idea of self- subsisting through the benefit of others became transformed into the process of self-governing through the consent of others. MERRY CHRISTMAS
