John Scotus Eriugena
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John Scotus Eriugena, also known as Johannes Scotus Erigena, John the Scot or John the Irish-born, was an Irish Neoplatonist philosopher, theologian and poet of the Early Middle Ages. Bertrand Russell
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De divisione naturae
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De Divisione Naturae is the title given by Thomas Gale to his edition of the work originally titled by 9th-century theologian Johannes Scotus Eriugena Periphyseon.
John Scotus Eriugena
…and of the whole period of Latin philosophy stretching from Boethius to Anselm". He wrote a number of works, but is best known today for having written De Divisione Naturae ("The Division of Nature"), or Periphyseon, which has been called the "final achievement" of ancient philosophy, a work which "synthesizes the philosophical…
Eriugena, Periphyseon, Reims, 875