eprintid: 27533
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creators_name: Vinco, Roberto
title: Meister Eckhart’s Non-standard Natural Theology
subjects: ddc-100
subjects: ddc-230
divisions: i-70100
keywords: Natürliche Theologie, Metaphysik, Mittelalterliche Philosophie, Meister Eckhart
note: Dieser Beitrag ist aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.

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abstract: In this paper, I discuss Meister Eckhart’s approach to natural theology and specifically to the question of God’s existence. I argue that, according to the Eckhartian position, God’s existence is not to be regarded as the result of an (a posteriori or a priori) inference, but as metaphysical self-evidence. This noninferential conception, based on a fundamental unity between natural theology and general metaphysics, constitutes an alternative to the standard Avicennian paradigm that lies at the heart of most of the natural-theological projects of the scholastic tradition.
date: 2016
publisher: De Gruyter
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00027533
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1515/nzsth-2016-0027
ppn_swb: 168855727X
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-275332
language: eng
bibsort: VINCOROBERMEISTERECK2016
full_text_status: public
publication: Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie
volume: 58
number: 4
place_of_pub: Berlin
pagerange: 473-488
issn: 1612-9520 (Online-Ausg.), 0028-3517 (Druck-Ausg.)
citation:   Vinco, Roberto  (2016) Meister Eckhart’s Non-standard Natural Theology.  Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, 58 (4).  pp. 473-488.  ISSN 1612-9520 (Online-Ausg.), 0028-3517 (Druck-Ausg.)     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/27533/1/nzsth-2016-0027.pdf