Platońskie idee i Eriugeny przyczyny prymordialne w kontekście ich przyczynowości i poznawalności
Plato’s ideas and Eriugena’s primordial causes

Summary/Abstract: In Plato’s philosophical system ideas are eternal and constant objects that serve as patterns and causes of the material, changeable world. Things exist because they participate in ideas. In Eriugena’s philosophical system causes are eternal objects created by God that serve as source of order and the excellent creature. In an absolute sense ideas and causes are unknowable, although they are available to the human intellect to a certain extent. This article attempts to compare ideas and causes to understand them as well as to examine their role as causes of the changeable world. It is worth drawing such a comparison, for both Plato and Eriugena are central figures in the European culture and for our civilization.

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