Meister Eckhart: Analogy, Univocity and Unity by Burkhard Mojsisch

By Burkhard Mojsisch

Trans. via Orrin F. Summerell

The considered Meister Eckhart ― the Dominican theologian, the preacher, the grasp of language, the mystic ― exudes a amazing fascination at the sleek brain, no longer the least because of its attribute interaction of scholastic-academic and vernacular terminology. This quantity offers the one book-length examine in English of Meister Eckhart the philosopher in the culture during which his notion is embedded and from which it attracts its authority. It indicates that while Eckhart might be justly considered as a medieval precursor of a contemporary philosophy of subjectivity, the newness and continuity of his concept can simply be understood in its relation to that of Albert the good, Aristotle, Dionysius Pseudo-Areopagita, the Liber de causis and the Neoplatonic history, Theodoric of Freiberg and Thomas Aquinas in addition to Eckhart of Gründig, Jakob of Metz and Johannes Picardi of Lichtenberg. At its middle lies the go back of the soul, via its detachment from every little thing corporeal, manifold and temporal, into its flooring or spark ― into that “something” within the soul the place, in response to Eckhart, “the floor of God is my flooring and my floor is God’s ground”. the current translation not just revises the German-language unique to take account of contemporary debates in Eckhart-scholarship, it in addition makes available to the non-specialist all Latin and center excessive German fabric, a lot of it formerly now not on hand in any translation in any respect. 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 culture interpretiert. Auch wenn Eckhart zurecht als Vordenker der modernen Subjektivität gilt, kann guy ihn nur im bezug auf Albert den Groîen, Aristoteles, Dionysius Pseudo-Areopagita, den Liber de causis und die neuplatonische culture, 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.

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The depiction of mystical experience did not replace thinking, especially not in Eckhart, the magister of theology from Paris, who employed his scholastic knowledge in order to examine the extent to which it allowed him to overcome a contemporary problem about which he constantly complained: the self-alienation of man. His science was not that of an esoteric theoretician. 50 49 Cf. the reference in: P. Strauch, Zu Taulers Predigten, 21, and the interpretation of this passage by: P. Wyser, Der Seelengrund, 257-267.

N. 31; LW IE, 25, 8-10. 39 Serm. II, 1 n. 6; LW IV, 8, 4-11. Cf. In Gen. II n. 47; LW I, 515, 5-11. L de causis, prop. ; Pattin 161, 64-162, 77. 40 In Ioh. n. 195; LW DI, 163, 10 f. : Albertus Magnus, Super Dionysium, De div. nom. 4 n. 177, sohlt; Ed. Colon. 41 In conjunction with the theory of the soul, the theoretical components 'univocity' and 'unity' bring out the connections between the causa essentialis as causa analoga or univoca, unity and human thinking. While the theory of the causa essentialis or the principium essentiale possesses for Eckhart a principally constitutive meaning, he ratifies only a single notion in the 'Quaestio Parisiensis I": Superius ordine essentiali totum est extra suum inferius quodlibet.

Proclus, Elem. , prop. ; Vansteenkiste 492: "... et in ente ergo vita praesumpta est et intellectus, unoquoque autem secundum subsistentiam caracterizato et neque secundum causam: aliorum enim est causa, neque secundum posthabitionem: aliunde enim habet hoc quod posthabet. " 31 Reason and rational cognition of God (or causa essentialis) theory in concentrated fashion, naming four natural conditions of every principium essentiale: "Prima (condicio), quod in ipso contineatur suum principiatum sicut effectus in causa.

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