Sunday, July 13, 2008

Marion retracting his position on Aquinas

"The act of being St. Thomas contemplates derives neither from metaphysics nor from ontology nor . . . from the [Heideggerian] 'question of being', but from the divine names and the 'luminous darkness'."

"L'esse que médite saint Thomas ne relève ni de la métaphysique, ni de l'ontologie ni même de la «question de l'être», mais des noms divins et de la «ténèbre lumineuse»."

     Jean-Luc Marion, "Saint Thomas d'Aquin et l'onto-théologie," Revue thomiste 95 (1995): 66.  This was later translated by Thomas A. Carlson as "The esse that Thomas meditates on may deal not with metaphysics, or ontology, or even the 'question of being' but, instead, with the divine names and on the 'luminous darkness'" ("Thomas Aquinas and Onto-theo-logy," in God without being, 2nd ed., trans. Thomas A. Carlson with a foreward by David Tracy and a new Preface by Jean-Luc Marion (Chicago:  The University of Chicago Press, 2012), 236 (199-236, 270-280)).

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