John Scotus Eriugena

[Anonymous No.15072093]

Where shoud I start with him?
What shoud I read before him?

[Anonymous No.15072108]

>>15072093
literally fucking who?

[Anonymous No.15072131]

>>15072093
holy fucking based what a post. A background in Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas would help. Along with the Bible of course.
>>15072108
do i need to give you a link or can you find your own way back?

[Anonymous No.15072289]

>>15072093
Finally, an anon with intelligence.

[Anonymous No.15072311]

>>15072093
Read the Neoplatonists and Augustine/Boethius (maybe some hermeticism as) well

[Anonymous No.15072465]

>Plato (Especially the Laws, Phaedrus, Gorgias, Republic, Timaeus, Sophist-Statesman, Philebus, Parmenides...)
>Plotinus (go for Uzdavinys Heart of Plotinus)
>Evagrius (skip Origen)
>Cappadocian Fathers
>Proclus - On the Existence of Evils (https://archive.org/stream/forbiddenknowledge_201911/Proclus-Ten-Doubts-concerning-Providence-Nature-of-Evil-Thomas-Taylor-transl#mode/2up))
>Proclus --- Probably have to be his Commentary on the Timaeus by Thomas Taylor, since everythi else is pretty expensive of "hard-hitting". (https://archive.org/stream/forbiddenknowledge_201911/Proclus-Commentary-on-the-Timaeus-of-Plato-all-five-books#mode/2up))
>Pseudo-Dionysius - Complete Works
>Maximos the Confessor - On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: The Ambigua
>John of Damascus - The Fount of Knowledge
Eriugena completed German Idealism.
And an alternative to reading Plato or any major work of the Neoplatonists, if you're a brainlet-fag and just want to walk the easy road, is to read Uždavinys - The Golden Chain.

[Anonymous No.15072489]

Read the chapters leading up to his chapter and his chapter in Copleston's history of medieval philosophy

[Anonymous No.15072562]

>>15072093
I've read him, anon, and half of these advices are either ignorant or over the top.
Ignore the esotericists/guenonians. They only want to smuggle their own authors and literature.
The real answer is the following:
Plato and Aristotle go without saying.
Pseudo Dionysus is an obvious influence.
Eriugena was also fluent in Greek and was a translator of Maximus the Confessor into Latin. So you might want to look into Maximus of Byzantium and Gregory the Theologian.
But what I think is really essential to understand his technical language is the Scholastics. This is downplayed because Eriugena is seen as a (Neo)Platonist, but he is in a Medieval milieu and his technical language and jargon comes straight out of Scholasticism.
I hope this was helpful.

[Anonymous No.15072594]

His writings on Pseudo-Aristotle's Physiognomonica are interesting; influenced a lot of subsequent scholarship on it (e.g., Lavater)

[Anonymous No.15072797]

>>15072093
Start with the table
Then a bottle of whiskey

[Anonymous No.15072935]

>>15072797
IRREVERSIBLY BASED

[Anonymous No.15072970]

Haha John Scrotum

[Anonymous No.15073036]

>>15072489
Gilson's history of medieval philosophy has a good section on him too