Dionísio Pseudo Areopagita e o nada de Deus

Abstract

Accordingly to a celebrated Heideggerian statement, we could say that the history of Western philosophy is constituted as an onto-theo-logy. This assertion, which in its critical context has a delimited theoretical-methodological meaning for those who seek to understand the guiding question of Greek philosophy and, later, Christian, that is, the foundament of the real or of the being, does not hold up when applied to the apophatic Dionysian tradition. Marked by the dialogue with Neoplatonism, the Corpus areopagyticum, by its radical apophatic characteristic, not only puts in suspension a certain historical-philosophical linearity inherited from Plato's thought, but establishes a way of treating human language regarding the divine that remains in force to the present day. This article aims to think, in the light of the dialogue with Neoplatonic thought, the notion of God as "nothingness of all that is" and its consequences for Dionysian negative theology.