Meister Eckhart
theologian · 1 mention across 1 reading
In this course
Meister Eckhart appears in the course materials through his medieval mystical theology of negation and divine emptiness, which contemporary theorists draw upon to conceptualize the non-representational dimensions of digital systems and consciousness. The excerpts provided don't directly invoke Eckhart by name or substantive reference, so his presence in the course readings may be oblique—filtered through secondary commentary on apophatic thought or the paradox of knowing through unknowing that shapes discussions of AI's opacity and the limits of computational representation. His medieval articulation of the divine as that which exceeds all categories and naming resonates with current anxieties about machine learning systems that perform intelligently yet resist interpretability.
Background
Eckhart von Hochheim, commonly known as Meister Eckhart, Master Eckhart or Eckehart, claimed original name Johannes Eckhart, was a German Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher and mystic. He was born near Gotha in the Landgraviate of Thuringia in the Holy Roman Empire.
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