Апофатички елементи во „латинскиот Асклепиј“
Journal
Филозофска трибина
Date Issued
2018
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Abstract
The paper overviews the „Latin Asclepius“, a hermetic text in which the divine
Hermes Trismegistus enters a dialogue with his pupil Asclepius, exposing
some of the teachings of his religious-philosophical tradition. First, the
main historical characteristics and the main points of the text are listed,
and the main topics of discourse and teaching with which Hermes Trismegistus
addresses his listeners are summarized. Next, the concepts of
the order of the world, the hierarchy of principles and the divine nature are
analyzed. A special attention is paid to the ways of speaking about god,
or the stances that about god it should not be talked about, i.e. the kataphatic
and the apophatic approach. Therefore, the article continues with an overview
of the possibilities of knowledge about god: through the reason that he
has bestowed upon us, and only in the way god himself has determined, that
is, of god as partially knowable (the reason has its limitations, and the divine
nature is too overwhelming for man’s cognitive abilities); the use of positive divine
attributes (god as omnipotent, supreme, most beautiful); and of privative
attributes, which are either clearly stated (god as uncreated, incorporeal, limitless,
without qualities, non-spatial and so on), or they can be derived from
the formulations about god as being all of the names (in fact, his namelessness)
and transcendence.
Hermes Trismegistus enters a dialogue with his pupil Asclepius, exposing
some of the teachings of his religious-philosophical tradition. First, the
main historical characteristics and the main points of the text are listed,
and the main topics of discourse and teaching with which Hermes Trismegistus
addresses his listeners are summarized. Next, the concepts of
the order of the world, the hierarchy of principles and the divine nature are
analyzed. A special attention is paid to the ways of speaking about god,
or the stances that about god it should not be talked about, i.e. the kataphatic
and the apophatic approach. Therefore, the article continues with an overview
of the possibilities of knowledge about god: through the reason that he
has bestowed upon us, and only in the way god himself has determined, that
is, of god as partially knowable (the reason has its limitations, and the divine
nature is too overwhelming for man’s cognitive abilities); the use of positive divine
attributes (god as omnipotent, supreme, most beautiful); and of privative
attributes, which are either clearly stated (god as uncreated, incorporeal, limitless,
without qualities, non-spatial and so on), or they can be derived from
the formulations about god as being all of the names (in fact, his namelessness)
and transcendence.
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