/lit/ - Literature

Kant is just a stepping stone to Hegel who is the endgame of philosophy and a pipeline back to theology. All of the answers are already in Plotinus, Proclus, Maximus Confessor, and Erigena.

Was Eruigena a pantheist or not? Seems like he just got too excited about reading the Greeks and forgot to make proper distinctions.

Read Eriugena (pbuh)

>the virtuous shall be one with God
>N-No I meant only the most virtuous, the rest can just wander aimlessly in heaven
What is it with Christians and gatekeeping and why does their ideologies always end up sounding subversive and sadistic?

So I saw a thread this week on Eriugena and got curious as to where I could get a good translation of his work, speficially his main one Periphyseon (The Division of Nature).
It's pretty damn thick so I went looking for a hardcover and NOTHING.
To read this book you'd either have to;
>suffer through 740 pages of a pdf
>learn latin or german
>fork over a couple hundred for only the first two books of the work

WHAT THE FUCK
Is there anywhere I can relatively inexpensively print hardcovers or something or is there some other place where it is available?

What can /lit/ tell me about Eriugena? Is he the key to overcoming modernity?

I keep telling you anon: read Eriugena. Non-being or negation is God too, and can be proven by diagonal argument.

Nature is a totality of four qualities;
1. That which is non-created and creates.
2. That which is created and creates.
3. That which is created and does not create.
4. That which is non-created and does not create.

The forth is non-being as the return of Forms to God.

Still haven't taken on the final boss yet I see.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scottus-eriugena/

>>11591950
Hegel stole this idea from Eriugena's Periphyseon.

>Periphyseon: The Four Divisions of Nature. Book One opens abruptly with the claim that ‘nature’ (natura), ‘the general term for all things that are and all things that are not,’ (I.441a), including both God and creation, is divided into four species. Echoing similar divisions in Augustine (De civitate Dei Bk. V. 9, PL xli.151) and Marius Victorinus (Ad Candidum), nature's four ‘divisions’ or ‘species’ are: that which creates and is not created (i.e. God); that which creates and is created (i.e. Primary Causes or Ideas); that which is created and does not create (i.e. Temporal Effects, created things); that which is neither created nor creates (i.e. non-being, nothingness). The first species of nature is God, “the cause of all things that are and that are not” (I.442b). There are several remarkable aspects of this division.

>First of all, division is defined by Eriugena in De praedestinatione as a branch of dialectic. Dialectic, moreover, is not just about the organization of words and thoughts but also describes the structure of reality itself. Secondly, the four divisions are not strictly a hierarchy in the usual Neoplatonic sense where there are higher and lower orders, rather, as Eriugena will explain, the first and fourth divisions both refer to God as the Beginning and End of all things, and the second and third divisions may also be thought to express the unity of the cause-effect relation. Finally, the division is an attempt to show that nature is a dialectical coming together of being and non-being. Creation is normally understood as coming into being from non-being. God as creator is then a kind of transcendent non-being above the being of creation.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scottus-eriugena/#3.1