From Being Nothing to Being Everything. Remarks on the Analogies between Søren Kierkegaard and Meister Eckhart’s Thought and their Common Aim
Abstract
The article analyzes three fundamental analogies in Søren Kierkegaard and Meister Eckhart’s Thought. First it examines Selvfornægtelse and Abgeschiedenheit as the ontological movement of self-detachment which leads to a transparency between human and divine will. It then elucidates obedience as the realization in the world of this transparency and understands it as propitiation and fulfillment of being in the world. Finally, the aims of the movements of obedience and detachment are interpreted as the consummation of the mystical union between God, spirit, and world, conceived as the «identity of event» and attested in the phenomena of joy and peace.
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