Eriugena and the re-enchantment of nature
This work is an attempt to show the similarities between the concept of nature held by Eriugena and Heidegger. This similarity provides the basis for both a criticism of the view of nature held by recent epistemology and a criticism of recent epistemology's view of medieval thought. These criti...
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2004
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| Online Access: | http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/8070/1/MQ94621.pdf Martinuk, Matthew J. M <http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/view/creators/Martinuk=3AMatthew_J=2E_M=3A=3A.html> (2004) Eriugena and the re-enchantment of nature. Masters thesis, Concordia University. |
| Summary: | This work is an attempt to show the similarities between the concept of nature held by Eriugena and Heidegger. This similarity provides the basis for both a criticism of the view of nature held by recent epistemology and a criticism of recent epistemology's view of medieval thought. These criticisms open the way for a modern understanding of nature in terms of the Good, that is, a re-enchantment of nature. This re-enchantment centers upon the development of the modern sciences, both natural and historical, and the effect that these have had upon metaphysics. The re-enchantment of nature discussed in this work is not an attempt to dismiss modern science in favour of medieval science. Instead, it is an attempt to re-capture the notion that human nature or the self can only be understood in relation to the Good and, in so far as human nature is a part of nature itself, an understanding of the self in terms of the Good is also an understanding of nature in terms of the Good. |
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