Abstract
I focus Aquinas’ conception of mystical experience including some aspects of his anthropology. \r\nI compare the enjoyment of God with other pleasures (including sexual). I report which knowledge about God is possible and that mystical experience is a foretaste of the Heaven: the latter involves a deflagration of will and emotions. Mystical experience is not a direct knowledge of God (with the exception of Moses and St. Paul), but entails a form of contemplation, an affective ‘cognitio experimentalis’ of God, ecstasy and ‘rapture’.
| Titolo tradotto del contributo | Anthropology and mysticism in Thomas Aquinas |
|---|---|
| Lingua originale | Italian |
| Titolo della pubblicazione ospite | L’esperienza mistica. Tra sociologia, filosofia e teologia |
| Editore | Vita e Pensiero, Milano |
| Pagine | 95-114 |
| Numero di pagine | 20 |
| ISBN (stampa) | 978-88-343-5866-5 |
| Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2025 |
Keywords
- Thomas Aquinas
- Tommaso d’Aquino
- beatific enjoyment
- ecstasy
- esperienza mistica
- estasi
- fruizione beata
- mystical experience