L’analogia nel Periphyseon di Eriugena come struttura cosmologica e dispositivo speculativo

Laura Busetto

doi:10.54103/2035-7362/19479

The Analogy in the Eriugena’s Periphyseon as a Cosmological Structure and Speculative Device

Authors

Laura Busetto École Pratique des Hautes Études https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4118-9666

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54103/2035-7362/19479

Keywords:

Periphyseon, Speculative analogy, Cosmic structure, Participation

Abstract

The speculative system of Giovanni Scoto Eriugena is one of the most complexes in the medieval panorama. In the Periphyseon, his greatest systematic work, analogy occupies a central role. Following Neoplatonism, Eriugena uses analogy as a cosmic law that governs the procession of natures from the One and organizes the relationship between reality and its origin. In the proceeding of natures from One, however, the analogy is articulated as participation. The analogy is underlain as the foundation of dialectics as the art of reasoning, leading to a complex discourse on the relationship between dialectic and rhetoric.

This article aims to analyze two issues in particular: what are the textual bases through which the medieval thinkers were able to use analogy as an argumentative and philosophical device; to investigate how, in the Eriugenian work, the analogy becomes both a method of representing the world and a cognitive device.

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Published

2023-06-01

Issue

No. 18 (2023): Analogy and Middle Ages, sive twenty years of analogies

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Saggi

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