Search results
People also ask
Who is John Scotus Eriugena?
Why did John Scotus Erigena learn Irish?
When did Eriugena become a speculative philosopher?
When did John Scottus Eriugena write the Periphyseon?
Aug 28, 2003 · Since the seventeenth century, it has become usual to refer to this Irish philosopher as John Scottus (or “Scotus”) Eriugena to distinguish him from the thirteenth-century John Duns Scotus (see entry).
- Neoplatonism
The term “Neoplatonism” refers to a philosophical school of...
- John Duns Scotus
John Duns Scotus (1265/66–1308) was one of the most...
- Pseudo-Dionysius The Areopagite
The first translation, made around 838 by Hilduin, abbot of...
- Neoplatonism
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".
- Johannes Scottus Eriugena, Johannes Scotus Erigena, Johannes Scottigena
Feb 29, 2024 · Born: 810, Ireland. Died: c. 877. Subjects Of Study: Neoplatonism. John Scotus Erigena (born 810, Ireland—died c. 877) was a theologian, translator, and commentator on several earlier authors in works centring on the integration of Greek and Neoplatonist philosophy with Christian belief.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 14, 2018 · John Scotus Erigena c. 810-c. 877 Irish theologian and philosopher who in his De divisione naturae (862-66) put forth the theory that Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter all orbit the Sun—an extraordinarily daring notion in his time.
This work is a substantial contribution to the history of philosophy. Its subject, the ninth-century philosopher John Scottus Eriugena, developed a form of idealism that owed as much to the Greek Neoplatonic tradition as to the Latin fathers and anticipated the priority of the subject in its modern, most radical statement: German idealism.
- Dermot Moran
- 1989
The Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena. A Study of Idealism in the Middle Ages. , pp. 58 - 80. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139172080.007 [Opens in a new window] Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Print publication year: 1989. Access options. Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below.
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.
Related searches
Searches related to john scotus eriugena philosophy
john scotus eriugena quotes
