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