2022-08-16 17:30:30
Amber L. Griffioen
Abstract:
In one of the most popular devotional texts of late medieval Christendom, the Horologium Sapientiae, German theologian and mystic Heinrich Seuse (a.k.a. Henry Suso) facetiously pokes fun at the scholars of his day. The philosophers, he maintains, “play about with their astrolabes” and busy themselves with measurement or musical harmonies; they chat about medicine or mechanics, and labor “with most burning zeal” as they drink from a goblet that only serves to make them thirstier. The theologians, for their part, sit inside the school of their proverbial mistress, Eternal Wisdom, but are only interested in speculation and adversarial argument, while being “utterly cold to true love”—trying to teach what they do not know by mere “assertion” because they have not practiced it as a way of life. The true philosophy, Seuse implies, is a lived philosophy—a philosophia spiritualis that is cultivated, practiced, and shared, and which is not only deeply personal but also public. In this talk, I want to use insights by Seuse and his teacher, Meister Eckhart, think about what a sapiential “spiritual philosophy” of the theistic variety might look like today and how, via the cultivation of more inclusive and less insular epistemologies aimed at understanding, as opposed to mere propositional knowledge, the pursuit of such a philosophy can take us “beyond belief” in ways that open up new possibilities for both theistic philosophers and religious folx on the ground.
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http://theismschool.philsci.sharif.ir/fa/خانه/
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