Spanish: mística/misticismoEnglish translation: personalist(ic) mysticism 
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Tech/Engineering - Philosophy / mystic philosophy | | Spanish term or phrase: mística/misticismo | I have a little problem with the term "mística", as a noun, not as an adjective.
If we were to translate "La mística personalista de Kierkegaard", which term would we use in english to translate "mística".
I know that an easy way of solving the problem would be to use "mysticims". However, misticismo y mística are not exactly the same, so I'd rather not use mysticism in this sentence.
so, my question really is: would it be possible to use "mystic" as a noun in English?
Any ideas?
Thanks a lot.
Regards,
Joaquim |
| | Clarification request(s) and responsepatricia scott: 2:13pm Feb 9, 2007: Hello Quim. yes, mystic can be a noun in English, but used only:
6. a person who claims to attain, or believes in the possibility of attaining, insight into mysteries transcending ordinary human knowledge, as by direct communication with the divine .
patricia scott: 2:18pm Feb 9, 2007: Take a look at Wikipedia´s definition of Kierkegaard - the word mysticism or mystic are rarely mentioned there, or, as a matter of fact, in any of his biographies - mostly "theological theories" or "Christian existentialism". Funny.
liz askew: 9:56am Feb 14, 2007: Bingo! Right choice! Perhaps we've all received a lesson here!
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| | personalist(ic) mysticism | Explanation:
It seems that in this case "mística" does mean "mysticism".
PERSONALISM
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/personalist
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source
per·son·al·ism –noun 1. Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
2. Psychology. an approach stressing individual personality as the central concern of psychology.
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[Origin: 1840–50; personal + -ism]
—Related forms
per·son·al·ist, noun
per·son·al·is·tic, adjective
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
PERSONALIST MYSTICISM
CSP - 'The Interspiritual Age: Practical Mysticism for the Third ...is essentially transcendent, while the personalist mysticism of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc., is both immanent, because of God's nearness to the human ...
www.csp.org/experience/docs/teasdale-interspiritual.html - 62k - Cached - Similar pages
JSTOR: The Religion of JavaThe heart of it is a personalist mysticism. Once again, the presentation is on the whole effective, although one feels that the author has to struggle very ...
links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-0079(196301)11%3A2%3C203%3ATROJ%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0 - Similar pages
PERSONALIST(IC) MYSTICISM AND KIERKEGAARD
[PDF] von Balthasar on Theology -File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
Kierkegaard has pointedly remarked. that in manthere are "a multiplicityof shadows,all ... ineluctably toward a personalist mysticism. The ...
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A Short History of Christian Thought - Christianbook.com... from Human Sin: Limitations of Speculative Reason: Kierkegaard and the Absurd ... Mystical Union: Personalistic Mysticism: The Theology of Revelation ...
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PERSONALISTIC
In case you need some more evidence for "personalistic":
[PDF] Mystical naturalismFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
personalistic mysticism of the sort that could issue in interpretations of divine. incarnationism, ‘I am the Real’ etc. ...
journals.cambridge.org/article_S003441250200598X - Similar pages
German Mysticism from Hildegard of Bingen to Ludwig Wittgenstein: ... - Google Books Resultby Andrew Weeks - 1993 - 283 pages
is often deceived.57 Here the conflict of authority has become topical and political, with a corresponding turn toward a personalistic mysticism. ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0791414191...
PERSONALISTIC MYSTICISM in fact is more common than PERSONALIST MYSTICISM, though both are used. |
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Deborah Workman
United States
| Note from asker to answererI know I said I did not want to use mysticim here. However, and looking and the possibilities and reasons, I have had to discard mystique, given that I am translating a technical text with technical philosophical terms, in which mystique would not work at all (it has a different meaning). So, at the end, sorry for havig nearly caused a war between some of you, I am going to go for "mysticism". The context allows for it.
Thank you all.
Regards
Joaquim
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| mystique
Explanation:
As far as I know "mystic" always refers to a person. So here's an option
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