Vision of the world in Meister Eckhart’s philosophy

Abstract

Many people have dealt with the question of God, as have the entire history of religion and philosophy. Numerous difficulties arise while trying to understand this question. Surely, for great minds of mankind, in the East as well in the West, it was an acceptable thought that God could not be conceived or expressed by no concept or utterance, i.e. defined by no definition. 1erefore, God is for a human of all times simply the inconceivable, the unutterable, and the indefinable one. God goes beyond the world and human, but at the same time penetrates them in a divine way. He abides in the world, encompasses it, and yet cannot be identical with it. Meister Eckhart (-), an erudite theologist and a leading thinker of the German mysticism is one of the first, unsatisfied with the old as well as with the modern ways of approaching the question of God, who sought out to find an inner third way. 1e way in which he described and analysed the differences between the ways of existence based on having and on being (to have and to be) is very interesting for us. It is a mystical deliberation that is directed more towards a truthful production of his deep experience than towards building an original system. Indeed, in Eckhart’s thinking the central thesis is that men firstly need to be free of any desire, then of avarice together with any structure of having as all ethic norms are rooted in the ethics of being, sharing and solidarity. In fact, his radical demand is to completely give up the orientation toward having, i.e. to advocate all-encompassing innocence, as