Studies in John the Scot Erigena a Philosopher of the Dark Ages
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For your confutation, however logical, does not prove you to be in the right. It is possible that both you and other people, amid so much that is false or only apparent, may fail to discern the truth which is one and secret. If anything is not red, it is not necessarily white ; if a creature is not a horse^ it need not be a man. K you follow my advice, this will be your line of action : to cease from reviling others, but to speak for the truth in such fashion that what you say can never be refu...ted/ In general, John's exposition of the truths that he had grasped was of this positive kind. But, like other Neo-Platonic philosophers both Pagan ^ The Bizth— to Sosipftter. Digitized by Google Scotus and Predestination 49 and Christian— like Porphyry, Julian, Origen — ^he was forced, on at least this one occasion, to abandon his usual course. Instead of keeping to his argu- ments, withan occasional side-thrust athis opponents, he directs his discourse at the head of his victim, leaving suggestions of positive doctrine to be ga- thered by the way.
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