John the Scot

Chapter Eight from Book Two, Part Two of Bertrand Russell's "The History Of Western Philosophy" (1945).

[@22grena]

''Apart from the extremely painful fact that St Patrick was an Englishman'' says the mischievous English narrator. The English were only just coming to Britain at the time the Romanised Briton Patrick was going to Ireland. In other words there was no England at this time or even an English people. There were Angle, Saxon and Jute invaders, though and Patrick was not one of them.

[@thenextshenanigantownandth4393]

John the irishman born in ireland a great scientist well ahead of his time.

[@rgaleny]

Mark Twain's , "The Mysterious Stranger" - What argument can you make against that in relation to this?

[@rgaleny]

In the Garden, sex is not sin, it is the the eating of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.

[@sawtoothiandi]

..which was a euphemism for cunnilingus!

[@tommoon5063]

@@sawtoothiandi And Eve did this first?

[@sawtoothiandi]

@@tommoon5063 she was double-jointed

[@Graham6762]

You really haven't learned a lot from the Charles the Hammer school. He can stay over but is he going to be polite and behave himself?

[@iohannesscott9514]

Eriugena, or John the Scot, is indeed an astonishing thinker, but Bertrand Russell's reading of Eriugena is actually very poor. Eriugena was orthodox and was not a pantheist. One has be very selective in the quotations used to describe him as a pantheist.

[@broquestwarsneeder7617]

not pantheist, panentheist

[@sawtoothiandi]

@@broquestwarsneeder7617 not panentheist, panenentheist

[@sawtoothiandi]

@@broquestwarsneeder7617 or panentheismenpan
all-in-god-in-all

[@22grena]

It’s not a John the Scot its John the Irishman.

[@tonyscott1658]

Back in the 8th and 9th century, a Scot was an Irishman. Scotland was initially Pictland ruled by Kenneth MacAlpin before the Gaels took over.