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Academy Resources Glossary of Philosophical Terms Timeline of Philosophy A Timeline of American Philosophy Diagram: Development of Philosophic Thought Diagram: Divisions of Philosophy The Philosophy Resource Center The Religion Resource Center Books about Philosophy in The Radical Academy Bookstore Books about Religion in The Radical Academy Bookstore Click Here for New & Used College Textbooks at Discount Prices Click Here for College Education Information & Study Resources Shop Amazon Stores in the Radical Academy Bookstore Magazine Outlet Music Store Classical Music Store Video Store DVD Store Computer Store Camera & Photo Store Computer/Video Games Software Store Musical Instruments Outlet Store Cellular Phones Toys & Games Tools & Hardware Automotive Store Outdoor Living Consumer Electronics Home & Garden Kitchen & Housewares Baby Superstore Apparel & Accessories Gourmet Food Grocery Store Sporting Goods Jewelry & Watches Health & Personal Care Beauty Store		The Human Mind by John Scotus Erigena   It would suffice for me to answer you briefly when you ask why God should have created man, whom he proposed to make in his own image, in the genus of animals. He wished so to fashion him, that there would be a certain animal in which he manifested his own express image. But whoever asks why He wished that, asks the cause of the divine will; to ask that is too presumptuous and arrogant.... I should not, therefore, say why He willed, because that is beyond all understanding, but I shall say, as He has permitted, what He has willed to do. He has made all creation, visible and invisible, in man since the whole spread of created nature is understood to be in him. For although it is still unknown how much the first creation of man, after the transgression, is in defect of the eternal light, nevertheless there is nothing naturally present in the celestial essences which does not subsist essentially in man. For there is understanding and reason, and there is naturally implanted the sound reason of possessing a celestial and angelic body, which after the resurrection will appear more clearly than light both in the good and the evil. For it will be common to all human nature to rise again in eternal incorruptible spiritual bodies.... Man is a certain intellectual idea, formed eternally in the divine mind....The human mind, its idea by which it knows itself, and the discipline by which it learns itself that it knows itself, subsists as one and the same essence....Reason teaches us...that the human mind assuredly knows itself and does not know itself. For it knows that it is, but it does not know what it is....The divine likeness in the human mind...is recognized most clearly in that it is known only to be, but what it is, is not known. Here is Your Guide to Medieval Philosophy   The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, by A. S. McGrade John Scottus Eriugena, by Deirdre Carabine Enrich Your Life With a Philosophy Book... Enrich Your Life With a Philosophy Magazine... Academy Showcase Specials     Introduction & Directory
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