Anagoge

The term anagogical or Anagoge an explainable by a design sense of a passage, the opposite of a literal interpretation, outgoing ( ancient Greek ἀναγωγή, anagogé " upward leader " ) called in Christian literature since Origen ( " higher " or " lower" ) is. Notwithstanding this word using Aristotle calls so that the repatriation of logical formulas on basic formulas. ( Less specific uses within the meaning of any concrete way, Up or feeding back are subsequently not treated. )

Conceptual history

Already in Homer anágein is Ana as a composite and agein in the meaning of 1 " lead up " and 2 " return " occupied. Also use Thucydides and Xenophanes anagoge in terms of " Run Up ". In Plato metaphorical uses such as find ( the first meaning belonging ) phos ice / ice philo Sophian anagein " lead to the light " / " lead to the philosophy " and ( for the second meaning belonging ) ton logon ep ' erchon anagein. Aristotle designated anagoge also the return of a concept to its logical origin.

The Septuagint, use the New Testament and Christian church fathers anagoge in the concrete sense of " lead up ", also, for example, in the meaning " from death, lead up from Sheol ", " set sail ", and finally upward leader (via ) of love or faith to connect with God. The second meaning belonging, Justin speaks of a back-reference of everything on the Bible.

In the Middle and Neo-Platonism referred anagoge the rise or returning to the Divine, also linked with the Ecstasy.

Only Origen used anagoge " as a technical term for a particular form of Christian exegesis ." He also emphasizes terminology ( as a inter alia by Wolfgang A. Bienert - against, inter alia, Ernst von Dobschütz - represented interpretation) the specific his exegesis against the allegorical method, as in the ancient Homer exegesis and in Philo of Alexandria was followed.

From anagoge speaks in that effect, also Hieronymus.

On the Logic

In Aristotelian logic, the Anagoge is a method to resolve completely syllogischer with the incomplete syllogische relations based. Care must be taken that, in principle the validity of the already known, completely syllogischen relation to the validity not yet fully syllogischen shall be entered into the. So there is equated with the Anagoge something special with more general, there is always the danger of a fallacy with the problem in the output something alien to it would be interpreted into it.