<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Is the Dionysian God, or an experience of the Dionysian God, absolutely ineffable? Does the Dionysian corpus assert or perform such ineffability? This paper will argue that the answer to each of these questions is no. The Dionysian God is known hyper-nous as the hyper-ousia cause of all. And the Dionysian corpus unambiguously refers to, asserts of, and metaphorizes about this God just so. In arguing these points, this paper will call upon both the speech act theory of John Searle and the metaphor theory of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. More particularly, it will look to Searle’s rules of reference and predication and conditions of illocutionary acts, as well as Lakoff and Johnson’s schematization of metaphor gestalt and entailment to show how Dionysian expressions of inexpressibility are rule-governed and the Dionysian God is thereby (relatively) effable. </p></abstract>

Is the Dionysian God, or an experience of the Dionysian God, absolutely ineffable? Does the Dionysian corpus assert or perform such ineffability? This paper will argue that the answer to each of these questions is no. The Dionysian God is known hyper-nous as the hyper-ousia cause of all. And the Dionysian corpus unambiguously refers to, asserts of, and metaphorizes about this God just so. In arguing these points, this paper will call upon both the speech act theory of John Searle and the metaphor theory of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. More particularly, it will look to Searle’s rules of reference and predication and conditions of illocutionary acts, as well as Lakoff and Johnson’s schematization of metaphor gestalt and entailment to show how Dionysian expressions of inexpressibility are rule-governed and the Dionysian God is thereby (relatively) effable.

Techniques and Rules of Ineffability in the Dionysian Corpus

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Drake University, USA

Studia Humana

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Is the Dionysian God, or an experience of the Dionysian God, absolutely ineffable? Does the Dionysian corpus assert or perform such ineffability? This paper...

Techniques and Rules of Ineffability in the Dionysian Corpus

Published Online: Oct 03, 2014

Page range: 3 - 31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sh-2014-0006

Keywords
Dionysius Areopagites, speech acts, Orthodox Christianity

© 2014

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Techniques and Rules of Ineffability in the Dionysian Corpus

Published Online: Oct 03, 2014

Page range: 3 - 31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sh-2014-0006

KeywordsDionysius Areopagites, speech acts, Orthodox Christianity

© 2014

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Dionysius Areopagites, speech acts, Orthodox Christianity