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Irland und Europa im frtiheren Mittelalter Ireland and Europe in the early Middle Ages Bildung und Literatur Learning and Literature Hcrausgcgeben von edited by Proinseas Nl Chathclin und/and Michael Richter Klett-Cotta 1996
1:rilisclla's t/Zcory of language in the Periphyseon: Explorations in the neoplatonic tradition By Dermot Moran Any consideration of medieval theories of language must begin by acknowledging the enormous complexity of linguistic and semiotic discussions in the philosophical and grammatical traditions of the West, traditions which, as yet, are inadequately mapped and documented. Unfortunately, nothing like a full history of the development of linguistic and semantic theories is available. 1 For the most part, academic discussion of medieval semantics and semiotics has tended to concentrate on the li\'ely period from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, looking, in particulal~ at the work of the M()di~tIlC, of Duns Scotus and William of Ockham. 1\11 these writers develop their semiotic theories on the basis of Aristotle's Dc illtcrprclilliollc, enriched by other rediscovered Aristotelian texts (such as Aristotle's Riletoric)." By contrast, apart from the writings of St. Augustine on language, which have nttracted particular pts of the Incarnation of the divine. Incarnation means articulation. Flesh is flesh but flesh is also spirit. Spirit is spirit but spirit is also flesh. The whole man (body ,lnd spirit and not just body) is born of flesh, the whole man is born of the spirit and not just the soul of man (III.706b). Eriugena's whole philosophy is to overcome tr,ldition,11 Platonic dualisms between matter and spirit, or that division between things, words ,md their meanings. The two sides of wisdom are Nature and Scripture, but both
