Master Eckhart
The mystique of love and its relations with ethics, liturgy and dialectics
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https://doi.org/10.20873/rpv7n1-38Abstract
This paper contributes to a new reading of Meister Eckhart’s mysticism by comparing it with key passages from Saint Bonaventure’s Itinerarium and Legenda Maior. The speculative interpretation based on Eckhartian Christianization of Parmenides and on dialectics is compensated by the highlight on the passivity of the intellect and the agency of divine love in the Birth of God inside of the depths of the soul. Dialectics is thus shown to be just a moment partaking with a whole made of liturgy and ethics too. It may be argued that the specific ethical vein of Eckhart’s ecstasy combined with the role of passivity in the Birth of God could make his mysticism somehow close to Levinas’ conception of the ethical.
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