Nature Conversing: John Scotus Eriugena’s Contemplative Ontological Poetics

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Valentin Gerlier
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ABSTRACT Inspired by Willemien Otten’s recent reading of the concept of nature in John Scotus Eriugena as ‘conversation’, this essay explores some implications of this mystical/theological notion in response to the current ecological situation. For Eriugena, natura is the theophanic unfolding of the divine logos, an unfolding in which both philosophical contemplation and human creativity play vital parts. To be part of nature is an endeavour both contemplative and creative or ‘poetical’, a cosmic practice in which natural and human world encounter one another in co-creative crossovers, and whose ends are oriented to the well-being and flourishing of all things in God. Eriugena’s premodern natura sidesteps attempts to ‘deconstruct’ or ‘get rid of’ of nature, as many contemporary ecological commentators claim is necessary, encouraging us instead to think it anew, in the light of a creative and contemplative theophanic unfolding.
自然对话:约翰·司各脱·埃留热那的沉思本体论诗学
Willemien Otten最近将John Scotus Eriugena的自然概念解读为“对话”,受此启发,本文探讨了这种神秘/神学概念对当前生态状况的一些影响。对厄留热那来说,自然是神性逻各斯的神学展开,在这种展开中,哲学思考和人类创造力都发挥着至关重要的作用。成为自然的一部分是一种沉思的、创造性的或“诗意的”努力,是一种宇宙的实践,在这种实践中,自然和人类世界在共同创造的交叉中相遇,其目的是为了上帝所有事物的幸福和繁荣。厄柳赫纳的前现代自然回避了“解构”或“摆脱”自然的尝试,正如许多当代生态评论家所声称的那样,这是必要的,而是鼓励我们在创造性和沉思的神性展开的光线下重新思考它。
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