MENU

Fun & Interesting

The Philosopher Who Tried to End the World with a Book | John Scotus Eriugena’s Periphyseon

Seekers of Unity 18,851 4 years ago
Video Not Working? Fix It Now

In the ninth century, a Christian mystical philosopher tried to end the world (as we know it), with a book. The Philosopher: John Scotus Eriugena, the Book: Periphyseon, On the Division of Nature. Exploring Eriugena's philosophical system and the deifying implications it holds for us humans, soon to be, and always have been, Gods. 00:00 Welcome and Cameo 00:43 Key Facts 02:37 Philosophical Influences 03:40 Philosophical System 06:54 Scotus’ Innovation 08:21 Creation as Theophany 12:43 Dialectical Pantheism 14:23 Fall and Return of All Things 15:31 Theosis, Deification - Heaven and Hell 19:35 Uniting Worlds 22:33 Condemnation 24:16 Influence and Study 25:07 Conclusion #Eriugena #Scotus #Pantheism Join us: facebook: https://facebook.com/seekersofunity instagram: https://instagram.com/seekersofunity twitter: https://www.twitter.com/SeekersofU website: https://www.seekersofunity.com Thank you to our beloved Patrons: Miguel, Rodney, Adam, Alexandra, Curly Joe, Chelsea, Jonathan, Charley and Alex. Join them in Supporting us: patreon: https://www.patreon.com/seekers donate: https://paypal.com/paypalme/seekersofu Sources and Further Reading: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scottus-eriugena/ Bett, Henry, 1925, Johannes Scotus Erigena: A Study in Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Carabine, Deirdre, 2000, John Scottus Eriugena, (Great Medieval Thinkers), Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. Duclow, Don, 2006, Masters of Learned Ignorance, Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus, Burlington, VT: Ashgate. Gavin, John, 2014, A Celtic Christology, Eugene, OR: Wipf&Stock Gersh, Stephen, 1978, From Iamblichus to Eriugena: An Investigation of the Prehistory and Evolution of the Pseudo-Dionysian Tradition, Leiden: Brill. Gersh, Stephen and Dermot Moran (eds.), 2006, Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition, Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press McEvoy, James and Dunne, Michael (eds.), 2002, History and Eschatology in John Scottus Eriugena and His Time, Leuven University Press. McGinn, Bernard and Willemien Otten (eds.), 1994, Eriugena. East and West, Notre Dame, Notre Dame University Press. Moran, Dermot, 1989, The Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena. A Study of Idealism in the Middle Ages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. –––, 1990, “Pantheism from John Scottus Eriugena to Nicholas of Cusa”, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 64(1): 131–152. –––, 1992b, “Origen and Eriugena: Aspects of Christian Gnosis”, in The Relationship Between Neoplatonism and Christianity, Thomas Finan and Vincent Twomey (eds), Dublin: Four Courts Press. –––, 1999, “Idealism in Medieval Philosophy: The Case of Johannes Scottus Eriugena”, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, 8(1): 53–82 O’Meara, John J., 1969, Eriugena, Cork: Mercier Press. –––, 1988, Eriugena, Oxford: Clarendon Press. Otten, Willemien, 1991, The Anthropology of Johannes Scottus Eriugena, Leiden: Brill. Otten, Willemien and Ludwig Bieler (eds.), 1973, The Mind of Eriugena, Dublin: Irish University Press. Otten, Willemien and Michael Allen (eds.), 2014, Eriugena and Creation, Turnhout: Brepols. Sheldon-Williams, I.-P., 1970, “The Greek Platonist Tradition from the Cappadocians to Maximus and Eriugena”, in The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Thought, A.H. Armstrong (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 421–534. Siewers, Alfred, 2014, Re-imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics, Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press. Stock, Brian, 1967, The Philosophical Anthropology of Johannes Scotus Eriugena, Studi Medievali, Ser. 3 (8): 1–57. Video credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5wiS... Papal Audience about John Scotus Erigena, June

Comment