Inaug.-Diss.--Göttingen. / Lebenslauf.

Inaug.-Diss.--Göttingen. / Lebenslauf.

Thesis--Tübingen. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 115-120.

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This thesis is first and foremost the result of my grappling with the works of Meister Eckhart. Accordingly, I intend to present here my reading of Eckhart's thought. This reading, my struggle to interpret the Meister, was, from the beginning, however, motivated by the aim to join a certain conversation. This conversation is what I have come to know as 'Christian philosophy'. I am new to the circles of those who admit to be participating in this scandalous project, yet already I have become quite aware of the controversy pervading this notion. It comes to the fore not only in the critical voices from the 'outside', questioning its meaning, relevance and legitimacy, but also in a lack of 'internal' consensus concerning its entailments. This is not necessarily a point of criticism on my part. In fact, I am much a proponent of conversations or projects that have an openness to them and lack clear cut deliminations. It does, however, make a brief apologia in preparation to this thesis necessary. I have no ambition whatsoever to state here what Christian philosophy is or should be. God forbid! I merely deem it important to place my project in context, and for that purpose I intend here to point out to the reader the direction I am facing. Thus, what needs to be clarified at the outset of my argument is that particular understanding of Christian philosophy this thesis intends to engage. The question here is, where and how to locate the conversation this thesis hopes to join. [from Prologue, p. 3]

Orientador: Francisco Benjamin Souza Netto / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T00:50:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Raschietti_Matteo_M.pdf: 710891 bytes, checksum: fca9a5e7fd2be876b23c19938740d7a9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Resumo: ¿Fundo da alma¿ (Grund der Seele) é uma das muitas expressões que em Eckhart indicam, antes de tudo, a realidade mais verdadeira e profunda do ser humano. É o ser do homem enquanto homem, o homem universal, a natureza humana. Mas, enquanto ser, e pelo fato de que ¿esse est deus¿, é também o ser de Deus no homem, do homem em Deus ¿ portanto o fim da alteridade do ser. No fundo da alma não há nem representações nem modos, mas apenas Deus: e não o Deus determinado, mas o ¿Deus sine modis¿, a Divinitas (Gottheit) que é o Deus verdadeiro, o uno que está acima de todas as contradições. Essa presença de Deus é a geração no homem, pelo homem e por Deus, do logos, do Filho (Gottesgeburt). O tema da geração é desenvolvido a partir da reflexão trinitária, mas estende-se além do dogma. Para ilustrar as etapas do percurso racional de Meister Eckhart e compreender o significado da geração eterna do logos, esta dissertação analisa quatro questões fundamentais do pensamento de Eckhart a partir do poema Granum sinapsis, que condensa os aspectos principais da sua especulação filosófico-teológica: o conceito de uno e de ser, o conceito de alma, a questão do tempo, o nascimento do logos no fundo da alma. A mensagem de Eckhart revela a urgência de restabelecer o equilíbrio e o ritmo vital de exterioridade e interioridade, de unidade e multiplicidade, junto com a necessidade de redescobrir as riquezas escondidas no fundo da alma, para transformar as relações humanas que, somente por uma renovação interior dos indivíduos, podem ser salvas / Abstract: The ground of soul (Grund der Seele, in german) is one of the several expressions that, in Eckhart¿s thought, points to, first of all, the deepest and truthfull reality of the human being. He¿s the man being as man, the universal man, the human nature. But, as he is a being, and for the reason that ¿esse est deus¿ (the being is God), is also the being of God into the man, and of the man in God ¿ therefore, the end of being alterity. In the ground of soul there are neither representations, nor ways, but only God: He¿s not the God determined, however, but the ¿Deus sine modis¿ (God without ways), the Divinitas (Gottheit, Divinity) that is the true God, the One that¿s above all contradictions. This presence of God is the generation into the man, by the man and by God, of logos, the Son (Gottesgeburt, God¿s borning). The theme of generation is developed from the trinity reflexion, but extend itself over the dogma. In order to show the stages of Master Eckhart¿s rational journey and understand the meaning of the logos¿ eternal generation, this dissertation analyses four fundamental questions of Eckhart¿s thought, starting from the poem Granum sinapsis, which condenses the main issues of his philosophical and theological speculation: the concept of one and being, the concept of soul, the issue of time, the birth of logos in the ground of soul. Eckhart¿s message reveals the urgency to restore the balance and the rhythm of life between exteriority and interiority, unity and multiplicity, with the need to rediscover the richness hidden in the ground of soul, to transform human relationships that can only be saved through the inner renovation of the individual / Mestrado / Mestre em Filosofia

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Tübingen. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-214).