Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- List of abbreviations
- 1 European intellectual culture in the ninth century
- 2 The predestination debate
- 3 Eriugena's life and early writings
- 4 The Greek awakening
- 5 The Periphyseon
- 6 Eriugena as philosopher
- 7 Eriugena's sources
- 8 Dialectic, philosophy, and the life of the mind
- 9 The meaning of human nature
- 10 Self-knowledge and self-definition: the nature of human knowing
- 11 The meaning of non-being
- 12 The meaning of nature
- 13 Eriugena's influence on later mediaeval philosophy
- 14 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index nominum
- Index rerum
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- List of abbreviations
- 1 European intellectual culture in the ninth century
- 2 The predestination debate
- 3 Eriugena's life and early writings
- 4 The Greek awakening
- 5 The Periphyseon
- 6 Eriugena as philosopher
- 7 Eriugena's sources
- 8 Dialectic, philosophy, and the life of the mind
- 9 The meaning of human nature
- 10 Self-knowledge and self-definition: the nature of human knowing
- 11 The meaning of non-being
- 12 The meaning of nature
- 13 Eriugena's influence on later mediaeval philosophy
- 14 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index nominum
- Index rerum
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- The Philosophy of John Scottus EriugenaA Study of Idealism in the Middle Ages, pp. 288 - 316Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989