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The moralistic movement is saturated in skepticism from its beginning; it no longer observes the human as a utterly well-conceived, privileged creature. Reason becomes restraint. Remnant medieval forms of doubt about science of the Scholastic type are Nicolas of Cusa’s revival of the Idiota and the justifications of magic as a form of resignation towards theory. Magic is the subversive exploitation of the human’s privileged position in the universe, of his participation in the elements and stars, of his attribute as microcosm in the macrocosm.