Periphyseon

The Division of Nature
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-88402-462-0
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 724 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 1293 g

Called the “final achievement” of ancient philosophy, Periphyseon draws on knowledge of both the Greek and Latin Christian theological traditions, remarkable in the Carolingian world. It presents a Neoplatonic cosmology in the form of a catechetical dialogue between master and pupil covering the fourfold division of nature, in which all of reality is involved in a procession from and return to the One. Periphyseon was written by Johannes Scotus Eriugena (ca. 810–ca. 877), an Irish monk, translator, and philosopher. By 851, he was at the West Frankish court of Charles the Bald, where he would remain for the rest of his life at the palace school. Although Eriugena had followers in his time and later among the mystics—the School of St. Victor, Eckhart, Tauler, Ruysbroeck, and the German mystics, and Nicholas of Cusa and his professed disciple Giordano Bruno—many in the West did not welcome his ideas, and his work was condemned by Honorius III in 1225.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eriugena, Johannes Scotus

O'Meara, John J

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sheldon-Williams, I. P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Sheldon-Williams, I. P.
I. P. Sheldon-Williams was a scholar of the Christian Neoplatonic tradition and was editor of the critical edition of the Periphyseon in the Scriptores Latini Hiberniae series.

O'Meara, John J
John J. O’Meara was Professor of Latin at University College Dublin from 1948 to 1984 and founder of the Society for the Promotion of Eriugenian Studies in 1970.