Periphyseon

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The Division of Nature

By Johannes Scotus Eriugena

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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... Read More

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Called the “final achievement” of ancient philosophy, Eriugena’s Periphyseon draws on knowledge of both the Greek and Latin Christian theological traditions to present a Neoplatonic cosmology in the form of a catechetical dialogue. The Irish monk’s followers included Eckhart, Tauler, the German mystics, Nicholas of Cusa and Giordano Bruno.

Description

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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780884024620

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 September 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection

Contributors:

Edited by J. O’Meara
Translated by I. P. Sheldon-Williams
Edited and translated by John J. O’Meara

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 728

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Johannes Scotus Eriugena Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism

About the Author

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. 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.