Le statut méontologique de la créature selon Maître Eckhart

Abstract

God is Being, “esse est deus”, and only God is, He is the one and only Being, claims Meister Eckhart. What does it mean for God to be? Eckhart writes that we call the One God “Being”. Being is for him Being-One. It follows from this that everything is on the basis of God’s being. Things exist by this Being and in this Being, so that outside of this Being nothing is. If God is entirely Being and if Being and One coincide, what is the status of the created being, that is, of what is multiple by nature? Eckhart replies that the creature is “pure nothingness”. This article tries to find the right sense of this expression in the light of the relation between Being and One as it is understood by Eckhart.