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According to Stanford Encyclopedia, Eriugena is the most significant Irish intellectual of which period?

  • Renaissance

  • Enlightenment

  • Early monastic

  • Late monastic

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John Scottus Eriugena was a prominent Irish philosopher and theologian of the 9th century. He was a major figure in the Early Monastic period, which was a time of great intellectual and cultural flourishing in Ireland. Eriugena's work was influenced by both Christian and Neoplatonic thought, and he was a major proponent of the idea of universal harmony.
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