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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Colleague,<br>
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You are invited to participate in the next session of the Logic and Religion Webinar Series which will be held on <b>June 20 (THIS THURSDAY), 2024</b>, at <b>4 pm CET</b> with the topic:</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">THE LOGIC OF 'BEING NOTHING’ AND 'WILLING NOTHING’ IN MARGUERITE PORETE</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Speaker:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <u><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/yEDMCgZ0N1iPgGMx7CNLHbO?domain=tatianabarkovskiy.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Tatiana Barkovskiy</a></u> (University
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Register to get a zoom link:<br>
<a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/0zPUCk81N9tYL5x6pcQway1?domain=logicandreligion.com" title="https://www.logicandreligion.com/webinars">https://www.logicandreligion.com/webinars</a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Abstract: In her Mirror of Simple Souls, Marguerite Porete (d. 1310) defines the free soul as a being ‘saved by faith without works, who is only in love, does nothing for God, can be taught nothing, from whom nothing can be taken nor given, and who possesses
no will’. In my talk, I examine Porete’s notion of the soul’s ontological ‘nothingness’ and ‘less-than-nothingness’, and show how they translate into the nothingness of the soul’s will. As Porete argues, true freedom comes from freeing oneself of one’s self in
order to be and will together with the divine.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Join us 5 minutes prior to the beginning of the session!<br>
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With best wishes,</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Francisco de Assis Mariano,<br>
The University of Missouri-Columbia (USA)<br>
LARA Secretary<br>
<a href="mailto:lara@logicandreligion.com" target="_blank" title="mailto:lara@logicandreligion.com"><span style="color:black">lara@logicandreligion.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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