Mittwoch, 16.08.2023
Mind and Meditation in Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises: Comparative Study of three Latin versions
18:00 - 19:00 Uhr
Zentrum für Alte Kulturen, SR 3, Langer Weg 11, 6020 Innsbruck
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Vortragende/r
Aiko Okamoto MacPhail, PhD
Indiana University
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The later saint Ignatius of Loyoly was also a college student: He wrote The Spiritual Exercises presumably in Latin when he was a student at the University of Paris. I propose to read the text of the meditations as a book of philosophy, by comparing the three earliest existing Latin versions. Paradoxically his school Latin, often dismissed as clumsy word-for-word translation, makes him a philosopher, whereas the content of his book visibly aims at a Christian mystic dialogue. With The Spiritual Exercises, Loyola is standing in the upstream of modernity before the split occurred between philosophy and religious meditation, represented in seventeenth-century France by René Descartes and Blaise Pascal. As the Latin education outside Europe came with the Jesuits to Japan, the spectrum of Latin written in the Renaissance Society of Jesus marks also the dawn of the global Latin.
Veranstalter
Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Neulateinische Studien
assoz. Prof. Dr. Florian Schaffenrath
37605
florian.schaffenrath@uibk.ac.at