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Aug 28, 2003 · John Scottus Eriugena. Johannes (c.800–c.877), who signed himself as “Eriugena” in one manuscript, and who was referred to by his contemporaries as “the Irishman” ( scottus —in the ninth century Ireland was referred to as “ Scotia Maior ” and its inhabitants as “ scotti ”) is the most significant Irish intellectual of the ...
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John Scotus Eriugena, also known as Johannes Scotus Erigena, John the Scot, or John the Irish-born (c. 800 – c. 877) was an Irish Neoplatonist philosopher, theologian and poet of the Early Middle Ages. Bertrand Russell dubbed him "the most astonishing person of the ninth century".
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Jun 5, 2012 · Summary. In the 860s John Scottus Eriugena wrote the Periphyseon (later entitled De divisione naturae, that is, “On the Division of Nature”). The Periphyseon is a long work, filling nearly six hundred columns of the Patrologia Latina volume and containing approximately 217,450 words, written in the form of an extended dialogue between two ...
The Periphyseon, the magnum opus of the Carolingian thinker Johannes Scottus Eriugena (81>877), is widely recognized as the most original work in the history of Christian thought between Augustine and Anselm.l Set in the form of a dialogue between a Master and his Student, the Periphyseon presents a daring view of the universe, for which Eriugen...
John Scotus Eriugena* Donald F. Duclow In contemporary philosophy and theology, the themes of nothingness and creativity have taken on a fresh, novel importance. The crucial position of the notion of nothingness in the thought of Heidegger and Sartre indicates its centrality for phenomenology and existentialism. To suggest the importance
May 28, 2011 · Eriugena, master of the liberal arts, translator, philologue, poet, philosopher and theologian, developed the most systematic and radical form of Platonism in the Latin West until Maître Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa – both, directly or indirectly, under his influence.
Eriugena refers to Plato 15 times in the Periphyseon. 4 Porphyry's Isagoge and his two Commentaries on the Categolies (one now lost) were most important for shaping the medieval reaction.
