Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:12:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 IrisFS.pdf: 350369 bytes, checksum: 48d8d7ef4da71e5e1de0f74ded139a84 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-07-07 / This thesis aims at studying the concept of participation according to John Scotus Eriugena. The development of our research is based on an identification of Eriugena s sources, investigating the concept of participation since Dyonisus and the Greek Christian fathers, until the Periphyseon. To Eri?gena, the terms that are brought together in participation God, causes, and effects are, while everything that falls out of participation is not. Leaning on his understanding of the relation between cause and effect, according to which the effects participate in the cause and somehow are contained in it, he told us that all things and beings subsist eternally in God, and that God can signify Himself through the created things and beings. To Eriugena, creatures exist because they participate in the Divine Nature and receive their being from It, for nothing truly exists outside of It. / A presente disserta??o tem como objetivo o estudo do conceito de participa??o em Jo?o Escoto Eri?gena. O desenvolvimento da pesquisa d?-se a partir da identifica??o das fontes do irland?s, investigando o referido conceito a partir de Dion?sio e os padres crist?os gregos, at? chegar ao Periphyseon. Para Eri?gena os termos que se relacionam na participa??o - Deus, causas e efeitos - s?o, enquanto que aquilo que n?o mant?m nenhuma rela??o de participa??o n?o ?. Apoiando-se em sua concep??o da rela??o entre causa e efeito, segundo a qual os efeitos participam da causa e se cont?m nesta de alguma maneira, nos disse que todas as coisas subsistem eternamente em Deus, e que Deus se pode significar pelas coisas criadas. Eri?gena parte do princ?pio que as criaturas existem porque participam da Natureza Divina e dela recebem seu ser, pois fora dela nada existe verdadeiramente.