Commentary of João da Cruz about the verse “With thirst in inflammables loves” in the second book of Dark Night
Marcelo Martins BARREIRA
Original title: Comentário de João da Cruz ao verso com ânsias em amores inflamados no segundo livro da Noite Escura
Published in Mystic and Millenarianism in Middle Ages
Keywords: João da Cruz, Love, Medieval Philosophy, Mystic, soul.
The article is about the will in mystical contemplation. From the chapters 11-13 of the John of the Cross’s work entitled The Dark Night. There is in this book a original reading of John of the Cross on the relationship between will and intellect, especially with the "inflammation of love" in the soul.
Emotion as Search for Wisdom in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s (1651- 1695): El primer sueño
Lydia H. RODRÍGUEZ
Original title: La emoción como búsqueda de la sabiduría en El Primero Sueño de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695)
Published in Emotions in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean World
Keywords: Dualism, Freedom, Intellectual search, Sor Juana, soul.
The following article analyzes emotion as a human intellectual quest; this search can be considered a positive emotion. As Plato once said the use of logic and reason to channel our emotions makes something constructive that leads to the truth. This human need of emotion to seek human understanding is presented in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz expresses her imagination, creativity and genius through her extraordinary verses in the poem Primero Sueño. In this masterpiece of baroque literature, Sor Juana’s intellectual power as a writer, her deep curiosity and especially her pursuit of wisdom is displayed. Under a truly complex surface, there is a current of emotional distress. In the poem, the reader can appreciate Sor Juana’s internal struggle and the sense of desolation that she experiences. This suffering is evident and manifests itself in a constant tension between several contradictory elements in the poem. Finally, Sor Juana attempts to capture the human experience and achieve a complete understanding of the universe in Primero Sueño. She attempts this through her emotional view of the world in which she lives and interprets.
Epicurus and his Invitation to Wisdom
Ramon TORNÉ I TEIXIDÓ
Original title: Epicur i la seva invitació a la Saviesa
Published in Emotions in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean World
Keywords: Catalan translation, Epicurus, Letter to Meneceus, soul, wisdom.
The author presents the Letter to Meneceus underlining its human aspects, as being first of all an invitation to a thoughtful and calm life, the way of life to understand more and more which is the meaning of life itself. In a second part of its article a translation into Catalan of this letter is provided.
Images of nobility in life and works of Meister Eckhart
Matteo RASCHIETTI
Original title: As imagens da nobreza na vida e nas obras de Mestre Eckhart
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Eckhart, Nobility, deep of soul, intellect, soul.
Noble as provenance, dominicam master’s life had a plebeian destiny when he was condemned for heresy post mortem. In despite of this, his disciples setted on fire the flame of true nobilty indicated by Eckhart, that is peculiar of soul, intellect and human being free and detached of all images, inclusively of God’s image. Only when human being will recognise His presence in the deep of soul, finding the similarity with Him in the dissimilarity of himself and of all creatures, will be possible to experiment the true nobilty and the end of alterity between deus absconditus and His masterpiece of creation.
The Gottesgeburtszyklus by Master Eckhart: the fundamental mystic of “birth of God in soul” (Sermons 101 to 104)
Bento Silva SANTOS
Original title: O Gottesgeburtszyklus de Meister Eckhart: a mística fundamental do “nascimento de Deus na alma” (Sermões 101 a 104)
Published in Mystic and Millenarianism in Middle Ages
Keywords: God, Master Eckhart, Medieval Philosophy, soul.
This work analyses the famous sermons of “the birth of God in soul” (101-104), wrote in Middle High German by Master Eckhart, one of the main themes of his studies about the “fundamental mystic”. In the words of the Rhine master has been an unequivocally mystic and will to be free of psychological horizon of human subjectivity, as an expression to God and to soul’s union with the divinity. Eckhart affirmed in these sermons the intellectual necessity of “internalize itself”, i.e., the intellect would come back to his “essence”. Thus, it will perform the “birth of God in soul”. How it happens to Eckhart? The coronation of God’s action into the “deep of soul” will resemble to the top of “knowledge unknown”, it means, a condition of “epistemic obscurity” to the intellect. Therefore, the absence of knowledge is the condition for the union with the deity (Gottheit): we can’t see God unless by the blindness. We can’t know him unless by the “unknowledge”. The “return” from the multiply world to the indistinct One means to pass from the condition of know to the unknown; It means yet the transition between the created being to the nonbeing of God until culminate the nonbeing of deity. This is the condition of this “birth”.
