Das einfache Eins-Werden des Menschen und Gottes bei Meister Eckhart und Hegel

Abstract

This essay examines the becoming-one of man and God in the thought of Meister Eckhart and G. W. F. Hegel. It holds that the seemingly moral category of love is elevated to the onto-gnoseological dimension of the One itself in its fullness. In this very work which is love and at the same time is God Himself, God loves all things not as created, but rather inasmuch as they are created in God. This absolute process of becoming is brought to perfection when empirical space and time are overcome – a transcendence expressed by Eckhart as the ‹nun› of eternal presence.