The Supposed Autographa of John the Scot

The following article is dedicated to debunking a supposed finding of John the Scot's autograph. He was an Irish Catholic Neoplatonist philosopher, theologian and poet of the Early Middle Ages. He wrote a number of works, but is best known today for having written De Divisione Naturae (The Division of Nature), or Periphyseon, which has been called the «final achievement» of ancient philosophy, a work which «synthesizes the philosophical accomplishments of fifteen centuries.» The principal concern of De Divisione Naturae is to unfold from φύσις (physis), which John the Scot defines as «all things which are and which are not», the entire integrated structure of reality. Eriugena achieves this through a dialectical method elaborated through exitus and reditus, that interweaves the structure of the human mind and reality as produced by the λόγος (logos) of God.