Matteo RASCHIETTI

Original title: Meister Eckhart e o Paradisus anime intelligentis

Published in Paradise, Purgatory and Hell: the Religiosity in the Middle Ages

Keywords: Being, Eckhart, Paradisus, Return to One, intellect.

The Dominican master doesn't talk about Paradise in his works like a place in the future, because his point of view is not eschatological. In fact, for him there's no a way toward a future happiness, but a return to the origin. In Paradisus anime intelligentis, Eckhart defends the superiority of intellectus and God Himself is defined like it, while the esse (being) reports himself almost exclusively to creatures. The man, to realize his deep calling to be unum with God, has to come back to Him.