Category Archives: Ontology

To the … knowyng might, God … is evermore incomprehensible

Posted on June 10, 2010 by

            A number of posts thus far have addressed the cognitive faculties, the existence and operations of which might be said to have been implicitly postulated by the Cloud-author.  This may help us know how he … Continue reading →

Posted in Ontology, Philology | Leave a comment

Praxis: “How the werk … schal be wrought”

Posted on June 6, 2010 by

            A sort of pre-flight check-list is offered here for the practitioner’s benefit, should any take the “exercise” of the Cloud of Unknowing at face value and strive to implement it as given.             The author … Continue reading →

Posted in Ontology, Praxis | Leave a comment

Parsing the un- of Unknowing, II: A Cloud of Unkenning?

Posted on June 6, 2010 by

            What is meant by knowing may be constructed as being conditional upon the nature of the object known (including whether it is, or is not, an object in the physical sense).  Such in any case undergirds … Continue reading →

Posted in Epistemology, Ontology | Leave a comment

Parsing the un- of Unknowing, I: Negation and Reversal

Posted on June 6, 2010 by

            There is not one un- prefix in the English language, but at least two.  Which of these is at work in the expression cloud of unknowing?              Morphologically, we can infer two possible constituent structures … Continue reading →

Posted in Epistemology, Ontology | Leave a comment

He kyndelid thi desire ful graciously, and fastnid bi it a lyame of longing.

Posted on June 5, 2010 by

“With his great grace he kindled your desire and fastened to it a leash of longing.”  [lines 237-8, Ch. 1]             There are two words of interest philologically in this highly provocative image of the summoning … Continue reading →

Posted in Logos, Ontology, Philology | Leave a comment