Eriugeny ontologiczna koncepcja rzeczywistości
Eriugena’s ontological concept of reality

Summary/Abstract: In a 2009 general audience, Benedict XVI offered the short deliberation concerning the thought of Eriugena, whose views were condemned four times. Eriugena’s concept was most often viewed in history as a pantheistic vision of reality, contrary to Christianity, or as Christian Neo-Platonism. The article is an attempt to portray Eriugena’s ontological vision of reality in the frame of his philosophical system. According to his division of reality into existence and non-existence and the adopted criteria of identity, the article also constitutes an attempt to analyze what this division means for such categories as God, causes of the thing, man, sensory things, and matter. Eriugena’s views penetrated into European philosophy and in a subtle, unappreciated way had an influence, and Eriugena himself was not properly understood.

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