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THE CONNECTION BETWEEN CONTEMPLATION AND 'THE SPEECH OF THE HEART'

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Idzkowski J.
Edukacja Filozoficzna
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2008
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issue 46
163-174
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This article is an attempt to examine the connection between contemplation and 'the speech of the heart' (sermo cordis) in the thomistic existential philosophy. Starting from saint Thomas Aquinas, after performing the analysis of human cognition, the term of contemplation has been redefined. The act of contemplation defines Thomas Aquinas as 'simplex intuitus veritatis', simple vision of reality like truth. Truth is a transcendental property of being a property - ordered to the cognition of a man. This first act of contemplation - a simple intellectual vision - means the apprehension of principles (first structural elements) of being and causes the generation of 'the word of the heart' (verbum cordis). This process has been called indistinct cognition, or preconscious cognition, or cognition on the level of 'the speech of the heart'. 'The word of the heart' is born in the possible intellect of man. It is a manifestation of the first structural elements of being. It flows into the will and causes the return to the affecting being by relation based on transcendental properties. Then, the next act of contemplation, is the way to confirm the truth and the reality of the cognition. The intellect testifies and the will rejoices because of the bonds with the existing being.
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Kontemplacja a filozofia u Jacquesa Maritaina i Plotyna

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Stróżyński M.
Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
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2013
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vol. 41
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issue 3
19-41
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The paper compares the way in which Plotinus and Jacques Maritain understand the relationship between philosophy and contemplation. Both distinguish between discursive, conceptual reasoning and intuitive contemplation, and do not discount the importance of the first. However, they see in intuitive contemplation a very significant dimension of philosophy. Both distinguish two types of contemplation in terms of their relationship to essence and existence. While Plotinus did not possess a full conceptual understanding of essence and existence, some scholars suggest that he was somehow aware of the difference. The first type of contemplation is an intuitive knowledge of essence; the second is an intuitive state of “unknowing” which somehow grasps existence as such. The authors see the importance of this second type of contemplation differently: for Maritain it is a significant, but unnatural, experience of God via the esse of the soul, while for Plotinus it is the supreme human experience and the goal of philosophy.
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VNÚTORNÉ OBRAZY U KRESŤANSKÝCH MYSTIKOV. LITERÁRNO-SÉMANTICKÁ CHARAKTERISTIKA

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Kučerková M., Režná M.
World Literature Studies
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2014
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vol. 6 (23)
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issue 1
3 – 20
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The study offers a literary-semantic characteristic of the interior image in the writings of Christian or Roman Catholic mystics. The start point are several poetics which, from the point of view of literary-historical and cultural development, hold a relevant position their national literatures, but at the same time take part in the formation of a supra-national, universal, artistic mystical language, demonstrating – as seen in religionist approaches (e.g., M. Eliade) – several parallel and interior relations with mystical experiences in other religions. We understand the interior image as an image created in the consciousness of the mystic during a contemplative state and which the author later seeks to express in his work through language in a way that would preserve the semantic-value identity of the “seen”. It is the result of a so-called imaginative vision, and therefore has an analogic character: it is impossible to decode it literally, straightforwardly or without the knowledge of symbolic-connotative paradigm of Christianity and its imagination of the world.
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