Abstract:
Even if we don't consider religious experience to be a type of mystical experience, mysticism is similar to religion in terms of having multiple dimensions. And one of the dimensions of mysticism - along with ritual dimension, ideological dimension, institutional dimension, etc. - is its moral dimension. Also, like religion, this aspect of mysticism - like its other dimensions - has differences in different mysticisms. Accepting the existence of something called "Christian mysticism", this article deals with the historical investigation of its ethical dimension and enumerates the various ethical traditions that emerged in it
.Machine summary:
"In the Cistercian reform movement[4] in the twelfth century, this tradition gave rise to a rich collection of works that equated mystical love with It was that the author of these works is Saint Dionysius of Areopagus, who was converted to Christianity by Paul the Apostle, but it was found that these works (in Greek) were written in the late fifth or early sixth century.And their author is called false Dionysius today. A variety of these tendencies were combined in the mysticism of the late Middle Ages, especially in Germany, where a rich mystical tradition emerged in the Rhineland [3], from the mystical theology of Meister Eckhart, who was a follower of the false Dionysius tradition, to the asceticism of Henrich Sousso [4] 1366-1295) extended and entered the initial reform movement. But are there any limitations for the mystic as a moral agent?Are there criteria for distinguishing between genuine and deceptive mystical experience? The moral importance of these questions increases when the individual or group moves away from the authority of an official congregation. In the 20th century, the example of English-American philosophical approaches to this problem was [the book] Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) by William James[3] (1910-1842), unfortunately, James Dyer's conclusion is that mystical experience is only for the mystic Epistemic aspect is self-justifying, he repeated this issue without solving it.