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Moses and the gnosiology of God, according Gregory’s of Nyssa interpretation in Canticum Canticorum
Eirini ARTEMI
Original title: Moses and the gnosiology of God, according Gregory’s of Nyssa interpretation in Canticum Canticorum
Published in Art, Criticism and Mysticism
Keywords: Agnoia, Canticum Canticorum, Gnofos, Gnosiology, Gregory of Nyssa, Ignorance, Knowledge, Moses.
This paper seeks to provide an exposition on Gregory of Nyssa’s work on how Moses could “know” and “see” God. Humanity and God stand on two very different planes of existence. Moses “knew” God, because he tried to leave with God’s order. Every time that Moses made a movement that included a kind of his sacrifice, God appeared to him. God presented Himself to Moses through the burning bush. Gregory underlined that that every person, included Moses, can know the essence of God – one cannot know what God is. However, one can know “that God is” – meaning that we can know that God exists. Moses had many “visions” of God and Gregory explained that it is not possible for any man to describe these God’s revelation to Moses, because “Humans are not capable of this knowledge because it is “other than” or “beyond” them”. Moses wanted to see God all the time. Gregory reminded his audience that erotic desire mirrors spiritual desire only in part; spiritual desire – and ultimately the divine nature – cannot be limited to erotic desire. Thus, Gregory of Nyssa highlighted both God’s imminence and God’s transcendence. Moses wanted to see the same face of God. His desire was expressed to God. He knew that Salvation is achieved through knowledge about God, but in Christian dimension. This knowledge determined both humans and the form and content of their life. The knowledge for God is no longer man’s work in Christian teaching. It is the work of faith to the revealed truth. For this high feat-conquest has as assistant only the faith of man to God and the grace of God to man.
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Breuitas in the work of Festus of Tridentum
Moisés ANTIQUEIRA
Original title: A breuitas na obra de Festo de Tridento
Published in Art, Criticism and Mysticism
Keywords: Breuitas, Festus, Latin historiography in the Fourth Century AD.
The paper intends to point out how the epitomator Festus of Tridentum dealt with the ideal of brevity – the Latin breuitas – in his historical compendium. Nevertheless, it is noteworthy to mention that Festus did not use that rhetorical tool in an unvarying manner.
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Erudition and Charm Poetry in Anglo-Saxon England: Solomon & Saturn I and the Nine Herbs Charm
Elton O. S. MEDEIROS
Original title: Erudição e Poesia Encantatória na Inglaterra anglo-saxônica: Salomão & Saturno I e o Encantamento das Nove Ervas
Published in Art, Criticism and Mysticism
Keywords: Charms, Christianity, Old English, Solomon & Saturn.
Here can be found the first unabridged translation to Portuguese of one of the texts that is part of the group of sources known as The Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn, followed also by the first translation of the Nine Herbs Charm from the Lacnunga manuscript, both from the period of Anglo-Saxon England (5th - 1th centuries). In a parallel analysis, these texts might be considered one of the most enigmatic and – concerning the first one – the less studied by the tradition of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval literary studies. With a content that share elements from the Germanic past, Anglo-Saxon popular magical practices, elements from Greco-Roman culture and Judeo-Christian apocryphal literature.
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An internal analysis of Heidegger’s ontological dasein: the external criticism of Edith Stein
Giannina BURLANDO
Original title: Un analisis interno del dasein ontológico de Heidegger: críticas externas de Edith Stein
Published in Art, Criticism and Mysticism
Keywords: Edith Stein, Heidegger, Impracticability, Ontological Dasein.
Accordingly with Walter Biemel, when he asserts that “We can either view this thinking [Heidegger’s philosophy] from outside and seek to analize and critize it or we can endeavor to understand it from within”, my own aim in this paper, nontheless, shall not choose any of these exclusive approaches, but rather attempts to do both. Thus, I would like to enter into Heidegger’s philosophy to undertand and appretiate the positive dimention, perhaps hidden, of his view about the Dasein, to show in turn that the wishful ascent of Dasein in his path to being, as Heidegger proposed suffers from a lack of practicality. In other words, we shall emphasize first the novelty of Heidegger’s research on the self: as an ontological self par excellence, and secondly, we shall review insufficient or impractical aspects of his view, which follow from Edith Stein’s critique.
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Augustine and Wittgenstein on language: the meaning problem
Bento SILVA SANTOS, Filicio MULINARI
Original title: Agostinho e Wittgenstein em torno da linguagem: o problema da significação
Published in Art, Criticism and Mysticism
Keywords: Augustine, Language, Linguistic signs, Linguistic turn, Signification, Wittgenstein.
The influence of Saint Augustine (354-430) on the contemporary philosophy themes is in fact great. Inside these themes, one stands out in the contemporary philosophy: the theme of language. It is no accident that Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), one of the great philosophers of language of XX century, kept a swinging correlation with the Augustine theory. In this sense, with support in the Augustine’s works Confessiones and De magistro, and with support in the Wittgenstein’s Tractacus-Logico Philosophicus (1921) and Philosophical Investigations (1953), this article aims analyze the theoric connection between Augustine and Wittgenstein on the linguistics signals. With this connection, aims presents a scrutiny about the link between linguistic signals and referencials objects, with function of explore the discussion about the referencial words conteudistics topic, an important topic in the language’s metaphysics and for the philosophy of language.
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Archaeology and his break: the need for genealogy and the appearance of power relations in Michel Foucault thinking
Thana Mara de SOUZA, Bruno Abilio GALVÃO
Original title: A arqueologia e seu rompimento: a necessidade de uma genealogia e o aparecimento das relações de poder no pensamento de Michel Foucault
Published in Art, Criticism and Mysticism
Keywords: Archaeology, Genealogy, Knowledge, Speech, power.
Breaking the boundaries of archeology is the result of a long trajectory of Foucault’s thought that in L’Archéologie du savoir, becomes unable to analyze the new issues that arise: the subject and social grounds relating to the choices of themes and theories that make certain discourse. The question of the subject presented in archaeological history from the beginning, in Histoire de la Folie, linked to the concept of historical a priori, as it always refers to a “someone” involved in discursive practices. But the “social foundation” appears in L’archéologie du savoir when Foucault investigates the strategic formations of a speech. From that moment, to explain the emergence of knowledge linked with social practices in which the subject is inserted, Foucault opts for a genealogy of power. So the aim of our work is to show how the breaking of boundaries of archeology, a fact that drives Foucault to look at the thought of Nietzsche, genealogy as a method that provides continuing with their studies occurs. As we reach the archaeological limit Foucault entering his genealogical period, we will see the emergence of the issue of power and its relation to the discursive practices presented during the term of archeology.
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The compliment to the night in Vladimir Jankélévitch (1903-1985)
Clovis Salgado Gontijo OLIVEIRA
Original title: O elogio à noite em Vladimir Jankélévitch (1903-1985)
Published in Art, Criticism and Mysticism
Keywords: French contemporary philosophy, Mystical theology, Nocturnal experience, Symbology of light and darkness.
Vladimir Jankélévitch concedes to the image and experience of nighttime a proeminent place, both in his ontological and musicological reflections. Contradicting what is usually observed in Western philosophical tradition, the French contemporary philosopher elaborates, in different moments of his work, a kind of “compliment to the the night”, worthy of study. Therefore, the current article intends to point out the main factors which contribute to the extreme positivity of the nocturnal motive in Jankélévitch’s thought. Through this analysis it will be possible to recognize some of the fundamental influences which, in some cases reinterpreted, compose the original perspective of the philosopher. Among them, stand out the Romantic and Impressionist musical poetics, the philosophy of Henri Bergson, and a whole mystical and apophatical tradition, in which certain nocturnal image is equally valued.
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Alcibíades de Platón. Colección de Ediciones Tácitas. Santiago de Chile, Agosto de 2013
Giannina BURLANDO
Original title: Alcibíades de Platón. Colección de Ediciones Tácitas. Santiago de Chile, Agosto de 2013
Published in Art, Criticism and Mysticism
Keywords: Alcibiades, Plato, Symposium.
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TOLKIEN, J. R. R. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary together with Sellic Spell. Londres: HarperCollins, 2014
Elton O. S. MEDEIROS
Original title: TOLKIEN, J. R. R. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary together with Sellic Spell. Londres: HarperCollins, 2014
Published in Art, Criticism and Mysticism
Keywords: Beowulf.
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Anônimo do século XV. Curial e Guelfa. Santa Bárbara: Publications of eHumanista, 2011
Renata Cardoso BELLEBONI-RODRIGUES
Original title: Anônimo do século XV. Curial e Guelfa. Santa Bárbara: Publications of eHumanista, 2011
Published in Art, Criticism and Mysticism
Keywords: Curial e Guelfa.
