Jean Scot Érigène citations

Jean Scot Érigène est un clerc et philosophe irlandais du IXe siècle né autour de l'an 800. Il meurt vers 877 sans doute sur le continent, comme nombre de moines celtes venus d'Irlande, « l'île des saints et des savants » et du christianisme celtique, à moins qu'il ne soit retourné en Angleterre.

De Scot , dit « Érigène », philosophe et théologien du IXe siècle, il est impossible de fixer davantage les éléments relatifs à la date de naissance, la jeunesse et la fin de vie. On cumule sur le continent ses surnoms Scotus et l'Érigène ou, en latin, Eriugena. La dénomination Jean Scot Érigène dissimule une redondance toponymique. En effet, dans son pays d'origine, on le nommait Hibernia, Scottia ou Eriu. Érigène signifiant qu'il est originaire d'Irlande, alors que Scot indique qu'il vient de la terre des Scots, la Scotia étant à l'époque le mot latin pour désigner l'Irlande. Wikipedia  

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Jean Scot Érigène: Citations en anglais

“Pultes Scotorum.”

Irish porridge.

Verdict of the Fourth Council of Valence, 855, on his De Divina Praedestinatione, cited from Ferdinand Christian Baur Die christliche Kirche des Mittelalters in den Haupmomenten ihrer Entwicklung (Tübingen: Fues, 1861) p. 56; translation from Andrew Gibson James Joyce (London: Reaktion, 2006) p. 62.
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“Synthesizing as it does the philosophical accomplishments of fifteen centuries, this book appears as the final achievement of ancient philosophy.”

George Bosworth Burch Early Medieval Philosophy (New York: King’s Crown Press, 1951) p. 5.

Of De Divisione Naturae.
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“No one enters heaven except through philosophy.”

Annotationes in Marciam, no. 64; translation from John Joseph O’Meara Eriugena (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988) p. 30.
Original: (la) Nemo intrat in caelum nisi per philosophiam.

“The breadth of the table.”

Original: (la) Tabula tantum.

William of Malmesbury Gesta Pontificum, Bk. 5; translation from Helen Waddell The Wandering Scholars (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1927] 1954) p. 78.

His reply to Charles the Bald's taunt, as they sat at the same table, "Quid distat inter sottum et Scottum?", (How far is an Irishman from a drunkard?).

“What, then, is it to treat of philosophy, unless to lay down the rules of the true religion by which we seek rationally and adore humbly God, who is the first and sovereign cause of all things? Hence it follows that the true philosophy is the true religion, and reciprocally that the true religion is the true philosophy.”

Original: (la) Quid est aliud de philosophia tractare, nisi verae religionis, qua summa et principalis omnium rerum causa, Deus, et humiliter colitur, et rationabiliter investigatur, regulas exponere? Conficitur inde, veram esse philosophiam veram religionem, conversimque veram religionem esse veram philosophiam.

De Divina Praedestinatione, ch. 1; translation from Kenelm Henry Digby Mores Catholici, vol. 8 (London: Booker & Dolman, 1837) p. 198.

“For authority proceeds from true reason, but reason certainly does not proceed from authority. For every authority which is not upheld by true reason is seen to be weak, whereas true reason is kept firm and immutable by her own powers and does not require to be confirmed by the assent of any authority.”

John Scotus Eriugena livre De divisione naturae

Original: (la) Auctoritas siquidem ex vera ratione processit, ratio vero nequaquam ex auctoritate. Omnis enim auctoritas, quae vera ratione non approbatur, infirma videtur esse. Vera autem ratio, quum virtutibus suis rata atque immutabilis munitur, nullius auctoritatis adstipulatione roborari indigent.

De Divisione Naturae, Bk. 1, ch. 69; translation by I. P. Sheldon-Williams, cited from Peter Dronke (ed.) A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy (Cambridge: CUP, 1988) p. 2.

“When we are told that God is the maker of all things, we are simply to understand that God is in all things – that He is the substantial essence of all things.”

John Scotus Eriugena livre De divisione naturae

Original: (la) Cum ergo audimus, Deum omnia facere, nil aliud debemus intelligere, quam Deum in omnibus esse, hoc est, essentiam omnium subsistere.

De Divisione Naturae, Bk. 1, ch. 72; translation from Hugh Fraser Stewart Boethius: An Essay (London: William Blackwood, 1891) p. 255.

“One man stands head and shoulders above his contemporary scholars: head and shoulders, some hold, above the Middle Ages: John Scotus Erigena.”

Helen Waddell The Wandering Scholars (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1927] 1954) pp. 77-78.
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