Meister Eckhart Sermon 52: complete analysis (deep dive)

Dr. Johnson explains line-by-line and analyzes Eckhart's most famous sermon, Beati pauperes spiritu. Meister Eckhart says "I am the cause of myself" and "if you are unlike this truth, you will not understand it." It is really that radical?

0:00 introduction
2:27 translations of the sermon
4:40 notes on my translation: want vs will for "wil" and the progression in the sermon
6:58 Part 1: poverty of will
51:13 Part 2: poverty of knowing
1:04:29 Part 3: poverty of having/possession (detachment)

Dr. Johnson teaches philosophy at Georgia Tech. He is the author of Paradox at Play: Metaphor in Meister Eckhart's Sermons by Catholic University of America Press. It includes many sermons never before translated into English.

Meister Eckhart, Paradox at Play
https://amzn.to/3y6HV9W

All Amazon links are affiliate links, which means I do get a commission on them. That doesn't change the price for you - it just helps to support the channel and get more ideas out there!

Check out my store for t-shirts and more:
https://good-to-think-with.printify.m...

Special thanks to my Patreon supporters!

If you want to support the channel directly and get more involved with the process of making videos and interacting with me, please consider supporting the channel on Patreon:
  / goodtothinkwith  

I hope you found these ideas good to think with!

#meistereckhart #eckhart #Meister Eckhart #Eckhart sermon #neoplatonism #mysticism #mystic