Our Mission
The mission of Eriugena Review is to provide a platform for critical analysis of Irish politics, history, culture, and economics. We seek to publish original articles that contribute to ongoing debates over Ireland and its place in the world. Eriugena Review is specifically interested in work that examines the increasingly fraught Irish-American relationship.
Founded by alumni and friends of the University of Notre Dame, with strong ties to the Irish-American community, we are committed to promoting interdisciplinary dialogue from both sides of the Atlantic. We are seeking to form an intellectual community that promotes greater diversity of thought in discussions of Irish culture and society.
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Read more about our namesake below:
About John Scotus Eriugena
"Johannes (c.800–c.877), who signed himself as “Eriugena” in one manuscript, and who was referred to by his contemporaries as “the Irishman” is the most significant Irish intellectual of the early monastic period. He is generally recognized to be both the most outstanding philosopher (in terms of originality) of the Carolingian era and of the whole period of Latin philosophy stretching from Boethius to Anselm."
-Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
"For authority proceeds from true reason, but reason certainly does not proceed from authority. For every authority which is not upheld by true reason is seen to be weak, whereas true reason is kept firm and immutable by her own powers and does not require to be confirmed by the assent of any authority."
-John Scotus Eriugena, Periphyseon Bk. 1, ch. 69.
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