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-> notes (part.1) on ymagine denudari: éthique de l'image et métaphysique de l'abstraction chez maître eckhart (wackernagel)
forms of “extrinsic attributions”
as l. oeing-hanhoff asserts, the history of abstraction has not yet been written, as far as the middle ages are concerned.
semantic levels, from sacred to profane:
● verb-image
● human 'in the image' of the creator
● images 'dissimilar' from the exterior world
ektype/archetype = image-copy/model = 'imago'/'exemplar' = abbild/urbild
“to be generated 'in the image' of god, one must be de-generated from terrestrial filiation and 'un-imaged' from the images of all creatures” (p.34)
rejection from terrestrial filiation < renunciation of oneself < transformation 'in the same image' < divine filiation
'abstractive' function of the intellect, which 'detaches' (abstrahit) from the here and now, from the place and time / entbildung = detachment
1. inquantum (qua) = as = the exclusion of all that is foreign to the (redoubled) term
“the being of all things, as such, is measured by eternity, not by time. Because the intellect whose object is being, and that grasps being before any other thing, abstracts from the here and now, and thus from time” (p.38)
2. the idea of proximity (read: with the absolute), near-consubstantiality
● absolute being, “being is what desires all things” (avicenne)
● being formally inherent to things, “being is actuality” (saint thomas)
3. generator/generated (read: cgi)
● 'real' distinction in divine things, 'where the relation and the things are identical'
● distinction 'by relation and reason' in the things created
