Jan G. J. ter Reegen

Original title: Deus não pode ser conhecido. A incognoscibilidade divina no Livro dos XXIV Filósofos (XVI e XVII) e suas raízes na tradição filosófica ocidental

Published in Expressing the Divine: Language, Art and Mysticism

Keywords: Being beyond being, First cause, First principle, Ineffability.

The Liber XXIV Philosophorum in its XVIth e XVIIth thesis tells us about the ineffability of God as a consequence of His excellence and also in view of the fact that God can only think Himself. In this paper we will try to examine the base and dimensions of this statement, studying it as a part of a long tradition in ancient and medieval philosophy, i.e. Neoplatonism, and especially in the Liber de Causis.