tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811434474018539723.post1976376367713190140..comments2011-05-13T17:47:15.560+01:00Comments on AYCARDUS Project Blog: Status report (of sorts). . .Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811434474018539723.post-75194463794091606702010-11-22T19:45:56.682+00:002010-11-22T19:45:56.682+00:00Dear Michael,
just went over a small section of Ec...Dear Michael,<br />just went over a small section of Eckhart's homily on Augustine (Vas auri solidum ...) and suggest a few changes to the Engl. translation that you have posted in the Aycardus project, I do it here as I would like to encourage people to jointly help in this translation project.<br />Here the Latin text (LW V 94,11-95,2):<br />'Et haec cognitio operatur ad tria: primo ad occulta vel futura pronuntiandum, secundo ad meritorie operandum, tertio ad divinam dulcedinem praegustandum. Primus modus est prophetalis; secundus in habitibus gratuitis usque ad fructus; tertius in exstasi mentis, et haec in fructibus. Secundus et tertius perfecte erant in eo, quia de tertio dicitur secundum quod est in intellectu practico. Haec cognitio scientia vel sapientia, quasi sapida scientia, quae aliquando intromittit hominem in affectum multum.'<br />I suggest the following rendering:<br />'And this understanding brings us to three points: First, [it is] for the foretelling of things hidden or future [things]; second for meritorious works; third for the foretasting of divine bliss. The first way is prophecy; the second is the fruition of graced habits; the third is in the ecstasy of the mind, and this happens in the fruit. The second and third were perfectly [found] in [Augustine], the third is said according to practical knowledge. This knowing, by science or by wisdom, like sage [sapida] science, sometimes makes a person very excited.'<br />The quote shows how doing philosophy and theology, and working as a scholar was a mind-blowing experience and an exciting pleasure for Eckhart, immersing oneself in the cognition of science and wisdom. Indeed that's what it is. And according to Eckhart it is even more, it is the highest form of foretasting the divine bliss, God himself - in the fruit ...Professor Markus Vinzenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207418071078727708noreply@blogger.com