Eriúgena y los Platónicos de Cambridge

Abstract

This paper explores the relationship between John Scottus Eriugena (ninth century) and the Cambridge Platonists of seventeenth century, from the starting point of a key historical fact, which postulates that the editio princeps of Periphyseon, major work of the medieval thinker, was edited by Cambridge philologist Thomas Gale in 1681. The question that guides this investigation is if it is possible to find an inspiration for Gale’s choise of this Eriugenian work in the philosophical developments of Henry More and Ralph Cudworth. Concerning this purpose, I will establish some points of contact between Eriugena’s philosophy and More’s and Cudworth’s thought, as representative figures of Cambridge Patonists’ group.