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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Dionysius"”.
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A discourse of the non-discursive in Plato and pseudo-Dionysius
… <p>The Platonic conception of eras and Dionysius the Areopagiate's via negativa will be used to reveal moments where these thinkers have felt compelled to think beyond what discourse can capture. I will also look to Heidegger's critique of the Aristotelian logos apophantikos and his own …
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Expressing the Inexpressible: Bearing Witness in Jean-François Lyotard and Pseudo-Dionysius
… of Neoplatonist Christian mysticism, Pseudo-Dionysius, both intimately consider the inexpressible expression. Both are provoked by the witness who is silenced by the binding limits of grammatical possibility, even while called to testify to an ineffable. Both define this inexpressible as …
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Collapse Into Silence: Denys the Areopagite as the Key Source of Richard of St. Victor
… deals with the process of transmission of Pseudo-Dionysius’ texts over the centuries. Dionysius’ texts have been translated into Latin by many scholars- above all, John Eriugena, whose translation was used during the Middle Ages. The school of St. Victor, during the eleventh and twelfth century in …
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"Studies in Sallust's Historical Selectivity in the ""Bellum Iugurthinum"""
… his intellectual context. I draw especially on Dionysius of Halicarnassus' criticism of Sallust's model Thucydides. I explore the possible points of contact between Dionysius and Sallust, and apply Dionysius' perception of Thucydides' aims to the question of what might give a particular event a …
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ΔΙΑΜΕΣΑ-ΑΡΧΕΤΥΠΑ ΣΤΟΝ ΠΡΟΚΛΟ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΝ ΨΕΥΔΟ-ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟ ΑΡΕΟΠΑΓΙΤΗ
… PROBLEMS THAT OCCUPY PROCLUS AND PSEUDO- DIONYSIUS AREOPAGITES ARE REFERRED TO THE CONTENT OF THE RELATION OF THE SURPEME REALITY, I.E.OF INDIVISIBLE AND TRANCENDENT ONE, WITH THE MANYING AND IN SPECIFYING CUTTINGS PRODUCED EXISTENT. FOR OTHER REASONS, EACH ONE FACES THE RELATION …
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Dante's Divine Comedy as a theurgic act, a guide for the blessed reader from a state of misery to a state of bliss.
… its Christian adaptation as it relates to Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (5th century CE). The dissertation will then provide the arguments for the main claim in five steps. The first step will discuss the evidence for Dante’s esoteric affiliation. The second step will examine Dante’s …
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Constructing the Coast in Imperial Greek Periplography
… the seacoast. Chapter One ("Memory") focusses on Dionysius of Byzantium's *Anaplous of the Bosporus*. It argues that Dionysius engages in a form of local resistance to global empire by figuring the symmetrical shores of the Thracian Bosporus as material archives that preserve fragments of the …
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Piers Plowman and the Sacraments of Nature
… found its most influential expositor in pseudo-Dionysius who married the Platonist ideas of ontological participation and the natural mystical sign with the ecclesial sacraments of Christian ritual. Both Hugh and Dionysius conceived of the ritual sacraments as mediators of man’s relationship …
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Dante Poeticus/ Dante Mystics : Dante's Mysticism from his time through the sixteenth century.
… would likely have read, most notably Pseudo-Dionysius (fl. early 6th c.-hereafter Dionysius), Bernard, and Mechtilde of Hackethorne (1240-1298). Dante was no mere copyist, however-he did not lift catchy-sounding passages from earlier writings and insert them into his own poetry. He understood …
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The 'lexis' of medieval computus in selected Anglo-Latin and Old English prose
… 532-year Cursus Paschalis (c. 457), through to Dionysius Exiguus’ 95-year (5 x 19 year) Easter Table and Argumenta in the sixth century (c. 532), to Bede’s De Temporum Ratione and 532-year Circulus Paschae Magnus (Great Easter Cycle) in the eighth (c. 723). It has also briefly considered later …
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Federating EU Development Cooperation? Europe’s Contributions to International Development Effectiveness
The European Union (EU) has long strived to act collectively in the face of international challenges such as poverty, hunger and state fragility beyond its borders. While the EU member states and institutions seek coherent responses to these challenges, they also have partly competing agendas. Yet …
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Significant influences on the creation of the rose windows of Chartres Cathedral
… favored the Neoplatonic philosophy of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, the "anagogical approach" in particular. That philosophy became the aesthetic basis for the reconstruction of the Abbey. The artistic and technical innovations Suger envisioned became an actuality with the rebuilding at …
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Apostolic theology and humanism at the University of Paris, 1490–1540
… era. I argue that Lefèvre read the works of ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite as a guide to a more original and pious form of Christian erudition compared to the Faculty’s curriculum. He also involved students and colleagues in this project by integrating religious perspectives into his teaching of …
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In Principio Erat Signum: Dueling Dionysianisms & Sacramental Semiotics In Thomistic & Mystical Franciscan Poetry
… Plato’s *Phaedrus* to the sacramental cosmos of Dionysius the Areopagite, the grounding of semiotics in an effusive divine source establishes the possibility of all subsequent signs, of language, and of transcendence. However, competing interpretations of Dionysian metaphysics necessarily affect …
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Labyrinthum capellae. Le "Annotationes in Marcianum" di Giovanni Scoto Eriugena e la fortuna del neoplatonismo cristiano
… and Cassiodorus ones too. He translated Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Maximus the Confessor. He had a neoplatonic view of Christianity and tried to harmonize the impossibility to know God to man's intellectual capability to get a glimpse of God through the study of the nature. According to …
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The homilies of Mose bar Kepha on the early chapters of the Gospels.
… results of the discussion are the following: (a) Dionysius bar Salibi has copi~d MbK on the Gospe l s, as elsew here , quite slavishly; (b) Hbr, is a typical encyclopedic commentator drawing on a vari.ety of Greek and Syriac sources; (c) MbK ~as not the first such compiler ~f exegesis but depended …
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The indistinguishability between God and man in the thoughts of Meister Eckhart.
… Church notables such as Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius. He also embraces Neo-Platonic ideas of the One, and movement towards the goal of union with this One. Another major influence on his work was the ideas of contemporary mystics such as Marguerite Porete. This combination of theology, …
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Negative faith: the heretical writings of Valéry, Bataille and Laruelle
The aim of this thesis is to outline a new concept: negative faith. Negative faith is an unsayable, unknowable faith without an object, a form of energeia that explains the existence of what can be called impossible texts. Negative theology, Valéry’s Cahiers, Bataille’s more mystical works and …