ABSTRACT
Self-creation would imply a mystical foundation of unknowing according to which the self-creative subject is fundamentally absent in the act of its self-creation. Thus, interpreting the cosmic dialectic of divine immanence and transcendence as divine self-creation, Eriugena, like Dionysius, can see all of the cosmos as an infinitely varied showing or appearance of God. Eriugena's apophatic anthropology complements his apophatic theology. Eriugena's apophatic celebration of ignorance - both theological and anthropological - is intended to mark the manner in which both the divine and the human substance ultimately exceed or transcend all ten of the categories or “predicables” delimited by that “shrewdest of the Greeks,” Aristotle.
