UID:
almafu_9960119322802883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xvii, 333 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-139-17208-5
Inhalt:
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. Moran has written the most comprehensive study yet of Eriugena's philosophy, tracing the sources of his thinking and analyzing his most important text, the Periphyseon. This volume will be of special interest to historians of mediaeval philosophy, history, and theology.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Frontispiece -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- List of abbreviations -- European intellectual culture in the ninth century -- The monastic age in Ireland -- The Carolingian renovatio -- The patronage of Charles the Bald -- The predestination debate -- Eriugena's life and early writings -- The Greek awakening -- The Periphyseon -- Eriugena as philosopher -- Eriugena's fate in the history of philosophy -- Eriugena and the charge of pantheism -- Eriugena and German idealism -- Eriugena in the context of early mediaeval Latin philosophy -- Eriugena and the Greek tradition of negative theology -- Eriugena and the metaphysics of hierarchy -- Infinity and the relativisation of ontology -- Eriugena and the deconstruction of ontotheology -- Eriugena's sources -- The influence of Plato -- The influence of Plotinus and Proclus -- The influence of Origen -- Eriugena's Latin sources -- The influence of Augustine -- The influence of the Greek Christian Platonists -- Eriugena as a Neoplatonist -- Dialectic, philosophy, and the life of the mind -- Dialectic as the life of the mind -- The Carolingian understanding of dialectic -- Philosophy as encyclopaedic knowledge -- The arts and dialectic -- The categories and dialectic -- Philosophy as the imitation of Christ -- Philosophy as dialectic -- The nature of the mind -- The motions of the mind -- The identity of knower and known -- Knowledge and ignorance, difference and identity -- Dialectic and deification -- Philosophy as infinite anarchic activity -- The meaning of human nature -- Augustine's anthropology -- Human nature in paradise -- Perfect human nature -- Human nature as absolute freedom -- Human nature as causa sui -- The identity of image and archetype -- Officina omnium -- Fallen human nature -- The mind creates the body.
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The return of human nature -- Summary -- Self-knowledge and self-definition: the nature of human knowing -- Augustine's concept of self-knowing -- The Greek concept of negative knowing -- The arts as the structure of knowing -- The arts, definition, and the meaning of place -- The arts and self-knowledge -- The definition of human being -- The meaning of non-being -- The Latin background to the concept of non-being -- The Greek Neoplatonist view of non-being -- The five modes of being and non-being -- The meaning of the modes of non-being -- The Tractatus de nihilo -- The non-being of creation is privation -- Everything created is both eternal and made from nothing -- Numbers are eternal and created -- Ex nihilo creation really means ex Deo -- The meaning of the not-other -- Conclusion -- The meaning of nature -- The historical background to the meaning of nature -- The meaning of nature in ancient authors -- The meaning of nature for Eriugena -- The four divisions of nature -- The four divisions as hierarchy -- The reduction of the four divisions to one -- The reduction of the first and fourth divisions -- The unity of creator and created nature -- Universitas and multiplex theoria -- The primary causes as theoriae -- Eriugena's influence on later mediaeval philosophy -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index nominum -- Index rerum.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-89282-1
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-34549-9
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139172080
