Vasilescu E - Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite on the notion of time

Elena ENE DRAGHICI-VASILESCU**

Prof. PhD University of Oxford, UK

Abstract:

Pseudo-Dionysius knew Plato’s texts and those of his descendants well. His familiarity with their works, especially with the dialogue Timaeus, becomes evident in the way he treats the notion of time. Here is where this concept is presented as ‘a moving image of eternity’, an idea to which Dionysius adheres. The Syrian thinker Christianizes the term and sees is as series of ‘upliftings’ and ‘returns’ towards the principle of life, God. He believes that people live both in time and in eternity

Keywords:

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, God, time, Neoplatonic Philosophy, distention, temporality henosis, ‘uplifting’ ( ̓αγάγω) and ‘return’ (έπστροφή), kataphasis, apophasis,

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