When1: 858
When2: 870
Who: John Scotus Erigena [Scotus Erigena, John] or John Scotus Eriugena [Scotus Eriugena, John]
What: philosopher
Where: Dublin, Ireland/France
works\ Translation of Pseudo-Dionysius [858]; On the Division of Nature [865 to 870]
Detail: He lived 810 to 877 and was neo-Platonist.
Epistemology
Reason and faith are both sources of truth.
Ethics
Sin is to think something is good or right if it is not.
Metaphysics
Universals are essential reality and produce and have within themselves all particular objects. Reality has four parts: uncreated and creating, created and creating, created and not creating, and uncreated and not creating. Material world is lowest reality, created but not creating. Higher concepts are higher forms of reality. The only universal concept is God, who has no particular qualities, eternally produces all things, and has them within itself. God is the purpose of all things. Logos unites all things to God. There is no predestination.
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