Huian, Georgiana (2024). Fragility in the Encounter with the Divine: from Plato to Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine (Submitted). In: Fuhrer, Therese; Soldo, Janja (eds.) Fallibility and Fallibilism in Ancient Philosophy and Literature. Philosophie in der Antike (pp. 257-284). Berlin-Boston: de Gruyter
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This paper investigates the epistemic fragility in different renderings of the ascension to the divine, starting from Plato’s simile of the cave (Republic 514a–520a), and Plotinus’s ascension to the One (Enn. VI.9.2 – VI.9.4), which will be compared with the descriptions of visions in Gregory of Nyssa (The Life of Moses 373B-377C) and Augustine (Confessions VII.10.16 and IX.10.23-24). I focus on images of human weakness, failure and instability before the overwhelming and blinding light, and on the difficulty of communicating such an experience. I question how the epistemic fallibility is grounded in anthropological fragility and relates to moral impurity or imperfection; and compare and contrast the individual or communitarian aspects of these “ascensions” and their respective influence on the failure or stability of the vision.
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Book Section (Book Chapter) |
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Division/Institute: |
01 Faculty of Theology > Institute of Old Catholic Theology 01 Faculty of Theology > Institute of Old Catholic Theology > Systematic Theology, Ecumenical Theology, Practical Theology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Huian, Georgiana |
Subjects: |
200 Religion > 280 Christian denominations 200 Religion > 230 Christianity & Christian theology 100 Philosophy > 110 Metaphysics 100 Philosophy > 180 Ancient, medieval & eastern philosophy 200 Religion > 240 Christian practice & observance 200 Religion > 270 History of Christianity |
Series: |
Philosophie in der Antike |
Publisher: |
de Gruyter |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Georgiana Huian |
Date Deposited: |
27 Mar 2023 10:27 |
Last Modified: |
04 Apr 2024 13:22 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Christian Mysticism, Theological Anthropology, Augustine of Hippo, Ancient Philosophy, Gregory of Nyssa, Plato and Platonism, Apophaticism, Platonism, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Plato's Republic, Incomprehensibility of God, Greek Patristics, Fragility, Latin Patristics, Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Fallibilism |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/180651 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/180651 |
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