The salmon of knowlegde, "The cloud of unknowing", and other accounts of instant Knowing
This article considers the fourteenth-century treatise The Cloud of Unknowing as a description of instant, non-sensory cognition. The text has an ostensibly particular function as an instruction manual in Christian contemplation, but bears on a universal experience, that of quickly knowing without k...
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| Type de support: | Numérique/imprimé Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Peeters
[2016]
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Studies in spirituality
Année: 2016, Volume: 26, Pages: 217-248 |
| RelBib Classification: | CB Spiritualité chrétienne KAF Moyen Âge tardif NBE Anthropologie VA Philosophie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Cognitive Science
B Cloud of unknowing B Flesh (Theology) B Science and religion B Peer reviewed B Ethnology B Cognition B Intuition B Spirit B Insight B Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) B Mysticism 0600-1500 B Body and soul B Body, Human (Philosophy) |
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| Résumé: | This article considers the fourteenth-century treatise The Cloud of Unknowing as a description of instant, non-sensory cognition. The text has an ostensibly particular function as an instruction manual in Christian contemplation, but bears on a universal experience, that of quickly knowing without knowing how we know. To demonstrate the universality of quick knowing, the literary motif of instant knowing is briefly considered, and a survey of intuition and non-sensory cognition in cognitive science is sustained throughout. A case is made that the author-mystic’s experience of unknowing is not unrelated to some aspects of everyday cognition. A corollary argument is made that early religious and literary texts provide new meaning when viewed as ethnographically and empirically valuable (as opposed to recursive and indeterminate). |
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| ISSN: | 0926-6453 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Studies in spirituality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/SIS.26.0.3180809 |