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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 ...
- Dermot Moran, Adrian Guiu
- 2003
Scholasticism. John Scotus Eriugena, [a] also known as Johannes Scotus Erigena, [b] John the Scot, or John the Irish-born [4] ( c. 800 – c. 877) [5] 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 ". [6]
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Feb 29, 2024 · 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. From about 845, Erigena lived at the court of the West Frankish king Charles II the Bald, near Laon (now in France), first ...
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May 14, 2018 · Erigena's life and thought are discussed in Henry Bett, Johannes Scotus Erigena: A Study in Mediaeval Philosophy (1925), and John J. O'Meara, Eriugena (1969). A brief treatment of the contents of Erigena's most famous work is in Frederick Copleston, A History of Philosophy, vol. 2 (1950).
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
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 ...
Also known as John the Scot, Eriugena was born in Ireland, achieved a remarkable degree of learning, and taught at the court of Charles the Bald. He is important as a translator and transmitter of Greek thought, the translator of Dionysius the PseudoAreopagite and other writers, and arguably the most important thinker in the Christian world ...
