Human mind as manifestation of God’s Mind in Eriugena’s philosophy

Many scholars, B. Stock among them, pointed to the words in Eriugena’s Periphyseon IV 776, which could with good reason be described as Eriugena’s cogito, namely the words intelligo me esse. Here I would like to discuss the special function of Scotus’ cogito in his thought. Scotus’ cogito, unlike Descartes’, is not meant to ground the certainty of the subject’s existence and thereby to provide the foundation for the certainty of his system. The full meaning of Scotus’ cogito is recovered when it is seen as a manifestation of hidden God and the “locus” for the constitution of the world.