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Johannes Scotus Eriugena (c. 815 – c. 877) was an Irish theologian Neoplatonist philosopher and poet. He wrote a number of works but is best known today and had most influence in subsequent centuries for having translated and made commentaries upon the work of Pseudo-Dionysius.

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birth date
0815-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
birth place
Gaelic Ireland
death date
0877-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
death place
England in the Middle Ages, France in the Middle Ages
era
Medieval philosophy
influenced
Alain de Lille, Amalric of Bena, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hildegard of Bingen, Nicholas of Cusa, Thomas Aquinas, Berengar of Tours, School of Chartres, Honorius Augustodunensis, Peter Damian
influenced by
Augustine of Hippo, Plato, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, Boethius, Cappadocian Fathers
main interest
Metaphysics, Free will, Logic
philosophicalSchool
Neoplatonism
region
Western philosophy

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