Images of Light in the Work of Valentin Weigel: Metaphors or Metaphysics?

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Images of Light in the Work of Valentin Weigel: Metaphors or Metaphysics?

Original language description

The Lutheran theologian and Paracelsian Valentin Weigel (1533–1588) is counted as one of the most influential German authors of the 16th century. In his theological and philosophical work, he was inspired by certain ideas and conceptions of a number of authors and sources, including the Bible, Boethius, Augustine, Hugh of St. Victor, medieval German Mysticism, Italian Renaissance Neo-Platonism, Nicolaus Cusa, Luther, Reformation heterodoxy, and Paracelsus. One of the recurring motifs in his work is the light and various images associated with it. It is the aim of the present study to analyze whether there is coherent and deliberately used metaphysics of light in Weigel‘s work – as it was found in his sources, particularly in the work of Marsilio Ficino, who at this point also influenced the Paracelsian tradition –, or whether he uses these images rather as metaphorical instruments. Based on a comparison of relevant passages and fragments found in various texts of Weigel (the only one consistently dealing with the subject being the brief treatise De luce et caligine divina), I come to a double answer: 1. Weigel works with metaphysics of the Neo-Platonic (Augustinian, Boethean, Ficinian) style which can be reconstructed from his texts. 2. Nevertheless, as a theologian, he uses the motives of light primarily in a symbolic and metaphorical sense to underpin and interpret his spiritual and mystical ideas.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GB14-37038G" target="_blank" >GB14-37038G: Between Renaissance and Baroque: Philosophy and Knowledge in the Czech Lands within the Wider European Context</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Comeniana: International Review of Comenius Studies and Early Modern Intellectual History

ISSN

0231-5955

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2018, 32

Issue of the periodical within the volume

56

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

9-28

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85083888839