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The Medieval Church · c. 862–867
On the Division of Nature
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John Scotus Eriugena · c. 815–c. 877
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What it is
A dialogue dividing all reality into four kinds of nature and following creation out from God and back into him, drawing on Greek fathers almost nobody in the West could read.
Why it lasted
The most ambitious philosophical work between Augustine and Anselm, condemned in the thirteenth century and a permanent underground current in Western thought.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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