Apuntes sobre la filosofía de Dionisio (Pseudo-)Areopagita

Abstract

For his obvious dependence on certain parts of Proclean philosophy, Dionysius the Areopagite has been neglected as a philosopher in his own right for more than a century. The present article tries to (at least partly) re-evaluate and to reassess our view ofDionysius's Neoplatonic system as depicted in the treatise De divinis nominibus. It is above all in a 'naive' methodical disregard of the Proclean background that the (Pseudo-) Areopagite's philosophy turns out to be a novel view and a valuable account of an intricate Platonic thea-ontology which -in Coleridge's famous words- «endeavours to explain all things by an analysis of consciousness, and builds up a world in the mind out of materials furnished by the mind itself».