The Relationship of Johannes Scotus Eriugena to Tradition according to J. Brucker, W. Tennemann and T. Rixner

Abstract

The article explores the philosophical filiations of Johannes Scotus Eriugena (9th century) established by three historians of philosophy (from the 18th and 19th centuries). J. Brucker, an Enlightenment thinker, W. Tennemann, a Kantian, and T. Rixner, a Romantic, are representatives of the period in which the history of philosophy becomes a discipline, and their works are sources for famous philosophers such as Hegel. The paper shows the extent to which the interpretive lines initiated by these authors are continued up to the contemporary period.

Keywords

• J. Brucker
• J. Scotus Eriugena
• T. Rixner
• W. Tennemann
• Neoplatonism