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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
Jan 3, 2024 · Johannes Scotus (c. 815 – c. 877) was an Irish theologian and Neoplatonist philosopher who settled at the court of Charles the Bald. His tendency towards pantheism led to his work being posthumously condemned as heretical. The usual modern form of his name, Johannes Scotus Eriugena or Erigena, is unrecorded before the 17th century.
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
Johannes Scottus Eriugena (c. 815 – 877 C.E.) (also Johannes Scotus Erigena, Johannes Scotus Eriugena, John the Scot, John Scottus Eriugena ), was an Irish theologian, Neoplatonist philosopher, and poet. His proficiency in the Greek language (which was rare at the time) allowed him to have access to a greater scope of philosophies and ...
Summary. 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.
