The Via Negativa and the Aura of Words

Mortley, Raoul

The Via Negativa and the Aura of Words

dc.contributor.author	Mortley, Raoul
dc.date.accessioned	2023-11-05T21:38:35Z
dc.date.available	2023-11-05T21:38:35Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description.abstract	The negative capacity is essential to creative thinking; we find it in the transcendentalism of the Judaeo-Christian tradition, though the Neoplatonist explanation of unknowing goes far further than simply pointing to the beyond; the idea of aura provides some understanding of how a word retains its influence even when negated; words or names are crucial in the move upwards in the mystical journey, and in the Neoplatonist and Christian tradition names or words are said to be fundamental, despite the via negativa; the linguistic ontology of Platonism underpins the existence of the names: but we do not have to believe in the ontic status of names for their aura to operate as we meditate over them.
dc.identifier.citation	"Verbum Vitae", 2023, T. 41, nr 3, s. 587-599
dc.identifier.doi	10.31743/vv.16318
dc.identifier.issn	1644-8561
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/5969
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo KUL
dc.rights	Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	aura
dc.subject	via negativa
dc.subject	unknowing (agnosia)
dc.subject	privation
dc.subject	abstraction
dc.subject	names (onomata)
dc.subject	Plotinus
dc.subject	Plato
dc.subject	Proclus
dc.subject	Damascius
dc.subject	Gregory of Nyssa
dc.subject	Pseudo-Dionysius
dc.title	The Via Negativa and the Aura of Words
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article