Dionysius Pseudo Areopagite and the nothingness of God
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31977/grirfi.v19i3.1235Keywords:
Dionysius Pseudo-Areopagite; Neoplatonism; Nothingness; God; Apofaticism.Abstract
Accordingly to a celebrated Heideggerian statement, we could say that the history of Western philosophy is constituted as an onto-theo-logy. This assertion, which in its critical context has a delimited theoretical-methodological meaning for those who seek to understand the guiding question of Greek philosophy and, later, Christian, that is, the foundament of the real or of the being, does not hold up when applied to the apophatic Dionysian tradition. Marked by the dialogue with Neoplatonism, the Corpus areopagyticum, by its radical apophatic characteristic, not only puts in suspension a certain historical-philosophical linearity inherited from Plato's thought, but establishes a way of treating human language regarding the divine that remains in force to the present day. This article aims to think, in the light of the dialogue with Neoplatonic thought, the notion of God as "nothingness of all that is" and its consequences for Dionysian negative theology.
Downloads
References
BEIERWALTES, W. Identità e Differenza, trad. Salvatore Saini, Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 1989.
BEIERWALTES, W. Platonismo nel Cristianesimo, trad. Mauro Falcioni, Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2000.
BEIERWALTES, W. Plotino, un cammino di liberazione verso l’interiorità, lo Spirito e l’Uno, trad. Enrico Peroli, Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 1993.
BEZERRA, C.C Mística e neoplatonismo em Dionísio Pseudo-Areopagita, São Paulo: Paulus, 2009.
BEZERRA, C.C. Compreender Plotino e Proclo, Petrópolis: Vozes, 2006.
BRÉHIER, E, Plotino, Ennéades III, texte établi et traduit par Émile Bréhier, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1925.
BUSSANICH, J. A metafísica do Uno in: GERSON L.P (org), Plotino, trad. Mauricio Pagotto Marsola, São Paulo: Ideias & Letras, 2017. Pp.55-86.
CARVALHO, M.S. Pseudo-Dionísio Areopagita, Teologia mística, Porto: Fundação Eng. António de Almeida, 1996.
CORSINI, E. Il trattato De Divinis Nominibus dello Pseudo-Dionigi e i commenti neoplatonici al Parmenide, Torino: Università di Torino, 1962, p.121.
DERRIDA, J. Salvo o nome, trad.Nicia Adan Bonatti, Campinas: Papirus, 1995.
DERRIDA, J. Cómo no hablar y otros textos, Barcelona: Proyecto A Ediciones, 1997.
DILLON, S.K.W. Dionysius the Areopagite and the Neoplatonist Tradition. Despoiling the Hellens, Aldershot: Ashagate, 2007.
DIONISIO, P. A. Corpus dionysiacum, Ed. HEIL, G. e RITTER, A.M. Berlin: Gruyter, 2012.
DODDS, E.R. Proclus, The Elements of Theology, translation, introduction and commetary by E.R.Dodds, Oxford University Press, 1963
ECKHART, M. Sermões alemães, 61-105, trad. Enio Paulo Giachini, Bragança paulista: Editora Universitária São Francisco; Petrópolis: Vozes, 2008.
GANDILLAC, M. Denys, l’Areopagite: La Hiérarchie Céleste. Introd. por René Roques; estudo e texto crítico por Günter Heil. Paris: Ed. du Cerf, 1958.
IVÁNKA, E.V. Platonismo cristiano recezione e trasformazione del Platonismo nella Patristica, trad. Enrico Peroli, Milano: Vita e Pensiero,1992.
LILLA, S. Pseudo-Denys L’Aréopagite, Porphyre et Damascius, in: ANDIA, Y (Ed.), Denys L’Aréopagite et as postérité en Orient et en Occident, Actes du Colloque Internacional, Paris: 21-24, septembre, 1994, Paris: Institu d’Études Augustiniennes, 1997.
NARBONNE, J-M. Hénologie, ontologie et Ereignis (Plotin-Proclus-Heidegger), Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2001.
RIST, J. Plotino e a filosofia cristã in: GERSON L.P (org), Plotino, trad. Mauricio Pagotto Marsola, São Paulo: Ideias & Letras, 2017, pp.443-473.
SCAZZOSO, P. Tutte le opere. Milano: Bompiani, 2009.
SCHIAVONE, M. Neoplatonismo e Cristianesimo nello Pseudo-Dionigi, Milano:Marzorati, 1962.
SANTORO, F. Filósofos épicos I : Parmênides e Xenófanes, fragmentos / edição do texto grego, tradução e comentários Fernando Santoro ; revisão cientifica Néstor Cordero. - Rio de Janeiro : Hexis : Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, 2011.
TAZZOLIO, F. Du lien de l’Un et de l’Étre chez Plotin, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2002.
TROUILLARD, J. Proclus, Éléments de Théologie, traduction, introduction et notes par Jean Trouillard, Paris: Aubier, Éditions Montaigne, 1965.
VANNESTE, J. Le mystère de Dieu. Essai sur la structure rationnelle d ela doctrine mystique du Pseudo-Denys l’Aréopagite, Bruxelles, DEsclée du Brouwer, 1959.
YANNARÀS, C. Heidegger e Dionigi Areopagita, assenza e ignoranza di Dio, a cura di Antonis Fyrigos, Roma: Città Nouva Editrice, 1995.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
The authors who publish in Griot: Revista de Filosofia maintain the copyright and grant the magazine the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, allowing sharing and adaptation, even for commercial purposes, with due recognition of authorship and initial publication in this journal. Read more...
