Meister Eckhart : analogy, univocity, and unity / / Burkhard Mojsisch ; translated with a preface and appendix by Orrin F. Summerell

• Autore: Mojsisch Burkhard
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : B.R. Grüner, c2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Disciplina: 189/.5
• Soggetto topico: Mysticism - Germany - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Altri autori: SummerellOrrin F
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: MEISTER ECKHART -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- TRANSLATOR' s PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1.INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. Viewpoint - A methodological principle -- 1.2. Meister Eckhart's "nâch dem nemenne -- 1.3. "Per rationes naturales philosophorurn " - Eckhart's program -- 1.4. Design -- 2. REASON AND RATIONAL COGNITION OF GOD: THE NON-RELATIONALITY OF ABSOLUTE INTELLECTUALITY -- 2 .1. The turning point -- 2.2. From Albert the Great to Meister Eckhart by way of Theodoric of Freiberg -- 2.2.1 . Albert the Great: The agent intellect as a comparative instance for the divine reason -- 2.2.2. Theodoric of Freiberg: God as intellectivum and the theory of the causa essentialis -- 2.2.3. Meister Eckhart: causa essentialis and principium essentiale -- 2.3. The development of thought in the 'Quaestio Parisiensis I' -- 2.3.1. "Intelligere fundamentum ipsius esse -- 2.3.2. The disjunction 'divine reason - created being' -- 2.3.3. Presuppositions -- 2.3.4. Progressing towards the goal: Divine reason in its non-relational sepa-rateness from everything which it is not -- 2.3.5. The essence of God as reason: Reason as the ground of divine being -- 2.4. The result of the 'Quaestio Parisiensis I' and an attendant misgiving -- 3. ANALOGY -- 3.1. The terminus generalis 'being' and its connection to the causa essentialis theory -- 3.2. "Esse est deus": Arguments for the identity of being and God -- 3.3. Determinate being as determinate and as being -- 3.4. Analogy and being -- 4. UNIVOCITY -- 4.1. The difference between analogue relation and univocity -- 4.2. Univocal correlationality in the realm of nature -- 4.3. The structure of univocal correlationality in contrast to analogue rela-tionality in the realms of nature and skill and in the divine-intellectual realm -- 4 .3.1. The paradigm 'justice - the just'. ; 4.3.2. The good - goodness and the just -justice in the 'Buoch der goetlîchen troestunge ' and in German Sermons 6 and 39 -- 4.3.3. The paradigm 'archetype - image ' -- 4.3.3.1. Eckhart and Johannes Picar di of Lichtenberg -- 4.3.3.2. Johannes Picardi of Lichtenberg's imago theory: Characterization and evaluation -- 4.3.3.3. Eckhart's imago theory -- 5. UNITY -- 5.1. Negatio negationis -- 5.1.1. The unum in Theodoric of Freiberg's theory of the transcendentals: Pri-vatio privationis as privatio - The uncancellability of the negative deter-minacy of the unum -- 5.1.2. The unum in Eckhart: The ground of being or unity -- 5.2. The objective paradox theory: The unum as indistinctum -- 5.2.1. The indistinctum arguments: The indistinct in its distinction and indistinction over against everything distinct -- 5.2.2. The reception of the indistinctum theory in Nicholas Cusanus -- 5.2.3. The combination of the theoretical components 'analogy', 'univocity' and 'unity' in Eckhart's indistinctum theory -- 5.2.4. Unity, essence, reason, being, nothing in their convergence anddifference -- 5.2.4.1. The priority of the divine reason before that being identical with it:The transcendental principium as the unity of essence and being and the perspective of the independence of essence -- 5.2.4.2. Jakob of Metz: The duplicity of the concept of essence (essentia secundum se et absolute considerata as the origin of divine being and essentia qua attributum) and the identity of absolute essence and reason -- 5.2.4.3. 'Isticheit' in Eckhart: That essence immanent in the transcendentalprincipium -- 5.2.4.4. Unity, essence, being, reason: Their distinct perspectives -- 5.2.4.5. Nothing as the essentia divina or as transcendental being. ; 5.2.4.6. The so-called 'Apologia' as a mirror of changing perspective: Theidentity of transcendental being and divine cognition and the priority of reason as the indistinct -- 6. THE THEORY OF THE SOUL -- 6.1. Eckhart on the edge between progressive orthodoxy and heresy: His aim of revolutionizing the self-understanding of man -- 6.2. The becoming of God through the I as causa sui -- 6.3. Eckhart's critique of Aristotle -- 6.4.1. The soul and its faculties -- 6.4.2. Letting go as having nothing in common with anything else: The possible intellect as the possibility of transcendental-univocal cognition -- 6.5.1. The ground or the spark of the soul in its analogue relationality and univocal correlationality -- 6.5.2. The univocal theorem of the birth of God in the ground of the soul: Its meaning and limit -- 6.5.3. The ground of the soul as unity: Leaving one's own and living out of one's own -- 7.CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF LATIN AND MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN CITATIONS -- LITERATURE -- INDEX NOMINUM.
• Sommario/riassunto: The thought of Meister Eckhart - the Dominican theologian, the preacher, the master of language, the mystic - exudes a remarkable fascination on the modern mind, not the least due to its characteristic interplay of scholastic-academic and vernacular terminology. This volume presents the only book-length study in English of Meister Eckhart the philosopher within the tradition in which his thought is embedded and from which it draws its authority. It shows that even as Eckhart may be justly regarded as a medieval precursor of a modern philosophy of subjectivity, the novelty and continuity of his thought can only be understood in its relation to that of Albert the Great, Aristotle, Dionysius Pseudo-Areopagita, the Liber de causis and the Neoplatonic heritage, Theodoric of Freiberg and Thomas Aquinas as well as Eckhart of Gründig, Jakob of Metz and Johannes Picardi of Lichtenberg. At its center lies the return of the soul, through its detachment from everything corporeal, manifold and temporal, into its ground or spark - into that "something" in the soul where, according to Eckhart, "the ground of God is my ground and my ground is God's ground". The present translation not only revises the German-language original to take account of recent debates in Eckhart-scholarship, it moreover makes accessible to the non-specialist all Latin and Middle High German material, much of it previously not available in any translation at all. Meister Eckhart: Dominikanischer Theologe, Prediger, Sprachgenie, Mystiker - sein Denken fasziniert den modernen Menschen nicht zuletzt wegen der einprägsamen Wechselwirkung von scholastisch-akademischer Terminologie und deutscher Mundart. Der vorliegende Band ist die einzige englischsprachige Monographie über Meister Eckhart als Philosophen, die ihn im Zusammenhang der ihn maîgeblich bedingenden philosophischen Tradition; interpretiert. Auch wenn Eckhart zurecht als Vordenker der modernen Subjektivität gilt, kann man ihn nur im bezug auf Albert den Groîen, Aristoteles, Dionysius Pseudo-Areopagita, den Liber de causis und die neuplatonische Tradition, Dietrich von Freiberg und Thomas von Aquin sowie Eckhart von Gründig, Jakob von Metz und Johannes Picardi von Lichtenberg adäquat verstehen. Im Mittelpunkt dieser Studie steht die Rückkehr der Seele - durch ihre Abgeschiedenheit vom Körperlichen, vom Mannigfaltigen und vom Zeitlichen - in ihren Grund bzw. in den Funken der Seele, wo nach Eckhart "gotes grunt mîn grunt und mîn grunt gotes grunt" ist. Der vorliegende Band revidiert nicht nur die deutschsprachige Original-Studie im Hinblick auf Debatten in der neueren Eckhart-Forschung: Auch dem Nicht-Spezialisten werden sämtliche lateinische und mittelhochdeutsche Quellen durch die Übersetzung ins Englische zugänglich gemacht.
• Titolo autorizzato: Meister Eckhart
• ISBN: 1-283-15841-8; 9786613158413; 90-272-8396-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819390103321
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