'n Herlesing van Pseudo-Dionisius se metafisika
This article, by analysing, annotating en interpreting the most recent research in all relevant departments, provides a fresh and updated overview of the Neoplatonic metaphysics of Pseudo-Dionysius (ca. 500). After providing an introduction to Dionysius' metaphysics in terms of the contributions of Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism, the article explores his broader philosophical system. A number of traits that are uniquely Dionysic-metaphysical, are eventually isolated: the interpretation of transcendence as bound to immanence; the affirmation of God's transcendence in the world (that is, a metaphysics of 'creation as teophany'; following E.D. Perl); the radical transcendence and simultaneous radical immanence of God (that is, God as 'Beingness'); fundamental restrictions of language and the analogical 'Naming' of God; creation as a system of dialectical symbols about God; the analogical participation of the subject in creation; and unification (reditus, the 'flowing of things back to God'). These traits are utilised to reappraise the metaphysics of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) in a subsequent article.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | Afrikaans |
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University of Pretoria
2018
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-94222018000400043 |
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