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Eriugena and the Neoplatonic traditionIn Adrian Guiu (ed.), A companion to John Scottus Eriugena, Brill. 2020.
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22Two Anonymous Sets of Scholia on Dionysius the Areopagite's “Heavenly Hierarchy.” (review)Speculum 87 (2): 578-580. 2012.
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1451. Taking Sides: The Education of a Militant MindIn Bernard Williams (ed.), Essays and Reviews: 1959-2002, Princeton University Press. pp. 252-256. 2014.
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32The Argument for Universal Immortality in Eriugena’s “Zoology”American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 79 (4): 611-633. 2005.Apparently alone among medieval Christians, Eriugena argues that all life is immortal. He relies on Plato’s Timaeus as his primary source for this claim, but he modifies the argument of the Timaeus considerably. He turns Plato’s cosmic soul into the genus of life, thereby taking a treatise that originally dealt with cosmology and using it to explore the ontological significance of definition. All species that fall under the genus of life must be immortal, because a mortal species would contradic…Read more
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17François Jullien’s Unexceptional Thought: A Critical Introduction by Arne De BoeverPhilosophy East and West 72 (2): 1-3. 2022.François Jullien is a master of repetition. Over his more than thirty books, he introduces a carefully defined set of concepts--such as “blandness” and “efficacy”--and then pairs them, opposes them, and sets them in different contexts, returning to them repeatedly without ever saying quite the same thing. One can imagine an introduction to Jullien’s work that traces each of his concepts through its development from book to book, noting explicit and implicit connections to the traditional Chinese…Read more
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The Postulate of Clarification in Cheng Yi's Commentary on the Book of ChangesSigns and Images 1 (1): 92-107. 2020.Erwin Panofsky developed the postulate of clarification to explain the mental habit common to Gothic architecture and Western medieval scholasticism, but the postulate is equally applicable to the commentary tradition of Song-dynasty China. The commentary on the Book of Changes authored by Cheng Yi (1033–1107) provides a good example of how the Confucians of the Song dynasty took their concern for clarity to a recognizably medieval extreme. By looking at how Cheng Yi understands and foregrounds …Read more
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The Problem of Paradigmatic Causality and Knowledge in Dionysius the Areopagite and His First CommentatorDissertation, Boston College. 2001.The Neoplatonic philosopher Proclus disagrees with his predecessor Plotinus on the degree to which human souls can liken themselves to the paradigms, the intellectual formal causes of the sensible world. Plotinus claims that a part of the soul is itself an intellect and not just a likeness of an intellect, while Proclus denies that the soul can ever be more than a likeness of intellect. ;This explicit conflict between Proclus and Plotinus repeats itself implicitly in the work of the author who c…Read more
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Roots of Scientific Objectivity in the Quaestiones ad ThalassiumIn Sotiris Mitralexis, Georgios Steiris, Marcin Podbielski & Sebastian Lalla (eds.), Maximus the Confessor as a European Philosopher. pp. 131-139. 2017.
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Religious PlatonismIn David Alan Warburton, Olav Hammer & L. B. Christensen (eds.), The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe, Routledge. pp. 263-277. 2013.
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Church Walls and Wilderness Boundaries: Defining the Spaces of SanctuaryIn Bruce Foltz, John Chryssavgis & David White David (eds.), Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration: Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Environment, Nature, and Creation, Fordham University Press. pp. 235-242. 2013.
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1Pseudo-DionysiusIn Graham Oppy & Nick Trakakis (eds.), Medieval Philosophy of Religion: The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 2, Routledge. pp. 277-290. 2009.
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Dionysius the AreopagiteIn James R. Lewis & Olav Hammer (eds.), The Invention of Sacred Tradition, Cambridge University Press. pp. 241-257. 2007.
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Creation and Natural Contemplation in Maximus the Confessor's Ambiguum X.19In Michael Treschow, Willemien Otten & Walter Hannam (eds.), Divine Creation in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Thought: Essays Presented to the Rev'd Dr. Robert D. Crouse. pp. 191-212. 2007.
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Eastern and Western Psychological Triads in Eriugena's Realized EschatologyIn James McEvoy & Michael Dunne (eds.), History and Eschatology in John Scottus Eriugena and his Time. pp. 447-462. 2002.
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Anastasius the Librarian's Reading of the Greek Scholia on the Dionysian CorpusStudia Patristica 36 119-125. 2001.
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Negating Negation: Against the Apophatic Abandonment of the Dionysian Corpus (review)Theologische Review 6 493-494. 2016.
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22Logic, Theology, and Poetry in Boethius, Abelard, and Alan of Lille (review)Review of Metaphysics 60 (4): 886-887. 2007.
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Why Be Moral? Learning From the Neo-Confucian Cheng Brothers (review)Frontiers of Philosophy in China 11 158-162. 2016.
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1Body and the Discursive in the Anthropology of Dionysius the Areopagite and His First ScholiastStudia Patristica 42 147-161. 2006.
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1What Are the 'Hypothetical Logoi' of Dionysian Mystical Theology?Studia Patristica 48 177-182. 2010.
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The Emperor Julian's Use of Neoplatonic Philosophy and ReligionIn Kevin Corrigan, John D. Turner & Peter Wakefield (eds.), Religion and Philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic Traditions, . pp. 65-79. 2012.
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243A Confucian Slippery Slope ArgumentConfucian Academy: Chinese Thought and Culture Review 4 (1): 89-101. 2017.The Song and Ming dynasty Confucians make frequent use of what would today be identified as a slippery slope argument. The Book of Changes and its early commentaries provide both the language and the rationale for this argument, inasmuch as the Confucians regard these texts as a method for identifying tiny problems that will one day threaten the state. While today the slippery slope argument is often criticized for promoting an unreasoned resistance to change, a close look at its use by Confucia…Read more
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25Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite: ‘No Longer I.’ (review)Speculum 88 (1): 341-342. 2013.
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8On the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy: The Thirteenth-Century Textbook EditionPeeters Press. 2011.The medieval fascination with the mysterious language of Dionysius the Areopagite is nowhere more evident than in the thirteenth-century textbook edition of his treatise on liturgical rites. Dionysius employed unfamiliar Greek to describe people, actions, and texts that would have been perfectly familiar to his readers. The Latin translation used in the thirteenth-century textbook strives to preserve this unfamiliarity, but commentaries are introduced between its lines and paragraphs, disrupting…Read more
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17The luminaries of late thirteenth-century Europe took great interest in the mysterious fifth-century author known as Dionysius the Areopagite. They typically read Dionysius not in the original Greek, but in a Latin edition prepared sometime in the middle of the thirteenth century. This edition, which appeared first in Paris and later circulated all over Western Europe, was no mere translation. In addition to the famous translation made by Eriugena in the ninth century, it contained translations …Read more
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40Clement of alexandria (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 45 (2): 326-327. 2007.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Clement of AlexandriaL. Michael HarringtonEric Osborn. Clement of Alexandria. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xviii + 324. Cloth, $85.00.With Clement of Alexandria, Eric Osborn returns to the subject of his 1957 book, The Philosophy of Clement of Alexandria, but its style and themes more closely resemble his more recent studies of second-century Christian thinkers: Tertullian, First Theologian of…Read more
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