Living Without Why: Meister Eckhart's Critique of the Medieval Concept of Will by Connolly, John M.

Living Without Why: Meister Eckhart's Critique of the Medieval Concept of Will (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199359783)

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Living Without Why: Meister Eckhart's Critique of the Medieval Concept of Will by Connolly, John M.

Living Without Why: Meister Eckhart's Critique of the Medieval Concept of Will

$125.00
Living Without Why: Meister Eckhart's Critique of the Medieval Concept of Will by Connolly, John M.

Living Without Why: Meister Eckhart's Critique of the Medieval Concept of Will

$125.00
Format: Hardcover
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What does it mean to "live without why"? This was the advice of Meister Eckhart (ca. 1260-1328), both in his Latin treatises to philosophers and theologians and in his German sermons to nuns and ordinary lay persons. He seems to have meant that we should live and act out of justice or goodness and not in order to gain some reward for our deeds. This message was received with indignation by the Church hierarchy and was condemned by the Pope in 1329. How did Eckhart come to formulate it? And why was it so controversial?



Author: John M. Connolly
ISBN-10: 0199359784
ISBN-13: 9780199359783
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 08/11/2014
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d

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Choice 01/01/2015 pg. 819
By John M. Connolly
By John M. Connolly
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John M. Connolly is Sophia Smith Professor of Philosophy at Smith College. His research is currently focused on medieval philosophy, especially Meister Eckhart. He has also worked in philosophy of mind, Wittgenstein, contemporary German philosophy, philosophical hermeneutics, and issues of academic freedom and tolerance. Connolly has taught courses in all of these areas and also in the history of philosophy. In addition he spent ten years in college administration as dean, provost, and acting president of Smith College.

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