Living Without Why: Meister Eckhart's Critique of the Medieval Concept of WillWhat does it mean to live without why? This was the advice of Meister Eckhart (ca. 1260 1328), both in his Latin treatises to philosophers and theologians and in his German sermons to nuns and ordinary lay persons. He seems to have meant that we should live and act out of justice or goodness and not in order to gain some reward for our deeds. This message was received with indignation by the Church hierarchy and was condemned by the Pope in 1329. How