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- Title
A TRIAL OF INTERPRETATION OF MEISTER ECKHART'S THOUGHT ON GOD AND MAN THROUGH THE ANALYSIS OF ITS PARADOXES.
- Authors
KAŹMIERCZAK, ZBIGNIEW
- Abstract
This article interprets Eckhart's contradictions by presenting them as a result of an existential search for salvific power. It is shown that power is ambivalent in nature: it is the power of what is and the power of (self)overcoming (of what is). Just because power is in itself ambivalent and the process of searching for it existentialist (so not completely conscious), Eckhart's mystical texts are full of contradictions and the German mystic is apparently not aware of it. The sample of them is shown in this article with regard to his ideas on God and man. Three other interpretations of Eckhart's (“apophatic,” “educational,” “methodological”) are presented and argued against.
- Subjects
ECKHART, Meister, d. 1327; PARADOX; RIGHTEOUSNESS of God; MYSTICISM; SPIRITUAL life
- Publication
Annals of Philosophy / Roczniki Filozoficzne, 2017, Vol 65, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0035-7685
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18290/rf.2017.65.1-1