John Scotus Eriugena
![Stained glass window in the chapel of [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]]. Depicted as an early Benedictine monk, holding his book ''De Divisione Naturae''. Behind him, seen against the night-sky, are an [[Irish Round Tower]] and a [[Celtic cross]]. (1884)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/John-Scotus-Eriugena.png)
He wrote a number of works, but is best known today for having written ''De Divisione Naturae'' ("The Division of Nature"), or ''Periphyseon'', which has been called the "final achievement" of ancient philosophy, a work which "synthesizes the philosophical accomplishments of fifteen centuries". The principal concern of ''De Divisione Naturae'' is to unfold from ''φύσις'' (''physis''), which John defines as "all things which are and which are not" the entire integrated structure of reality. Eriugena achieves this through a dialectical method elaborated through ''exitus'' and ''reditus'', that interweaves the structure of the human mind and reality as produced by the ''λόγος'' (''logos'') of God.
Eriugena is generally classified as a Neoplatonist, though he was not influenced directly by such pagan philosophers as Plotinus or Iamblichus. Jean Trouillard stated that, although he was almost exclusively dependent on Christian theological texts and the Christian Canon, Eriugena "reinvented the greater part of the theses of Neoplatonism".
He succeeded Alcuin of York (c. 735–804) as head of the Palace School at Aachen. He also translated and made commentaries upon the work of Pseudo Dionysius the Areopagite and was one of the few Western European philosophers of his day who knew Greek, having studied it in Ireland. A later medieval tradition recounts that Eriugena was stabbed to death by his students at Malmesbury with their pens, although this may rather be allegorical. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: 1997
Superior document: Iohannis Scotti seu Erivgenae Periphyseon editionem nouam a suppositiciis quidem additamentis purgatam, ditatam uero appendice in qua uicissitudines operis synoptice exhibentur 2
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Published: 1999
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Published: 2008
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Published: 2003
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Published: 1996
Superior document: Iohannis Scotti seu Erivgenae Periphyseon editionem nouam a suppositiciis quidem additamentis purgatam, ditatam uero appendice in qua uicissitudines operis synoptice exhibentur 1
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Published: [2000]
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Published: 1980
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