Four things you need to know about john duns scotus. He provides arguments for and against the proposition that human knowledge of god is possible. John duns scotus franciscan institute publications. He was a was a theologian, philosopher, and logician, and some say that it was while he was at oxford that the systematic examination of what differentiates theology from philosophy and science began in earnest.
John duns scotus and the principle omne quod movetur ab alio movetur. John duns scotus the possibility of the incarnation. John duns scotus is commonly known as doctor subtilis, the subtle doctor, in theological and philosophical circles. Heidegger and duns scotus article pdf available in kritike an online journal of philosophy 22. This strikes me as accidental, because i do not see how scotus could have had access to a clear form of the greek theory. Univocity in scotuss quaestiones super metaphysicam. Duns scotus and the recognition of divine liberality university of. The philosophy of john duns scotus provides an epic overview of the life and works of this scottishborn philosopher. In on being and cognition, the first complete translation into english of a pivotal text in the history of philosophy and theology, scotus addresses fundamental issues concerning the limits of human knowledge and the nature of cognition by developing his doctrine of the univocity of being, refuting skepticism and analyzing the way the intellect and the object cooperate in generating actual. John duns scotus 1265668 was one of the most important and. Peter king, in the cambridge companion to john duns scotus, edited by thomas williams, cambridge university press 2003, 1568. Professor of philosophy at the franciscan institute st bonaventure. The philosophy of john duns scotus edinburgh university.
Scholastic realism, peirce, duns scotus, universals. Duns scotus on divine substance and the trinity 183 scotus adopts a theory that is much closer to that found in the greek fathers. Peter king, in the cambridge companion to john duns scotus, edited by thomas williams, cambridge university. John duns scotus suddenly died in cologne, in germanys rhineland, in 8, still a young professor of only fortytwo years of viii the philosophy of john duns scotus. An ordinatio is a text that has been ordered or edited for publication. Scotus is interesting, then, not because he offers any startlingly new ideas about cognition, but. I engaged husserl and heidegger in a debate over the nature of. I make no pretensions to this page providing a systematic guide to scotist material that is available online. In this question notes a, b and c 3 refer to the principle argument. In his portrait of the artist as a young man, james joyce presents the aesthetics of thomas aquinas in.
But there are some useful resources available that are not easily stumbled across, so i thought there might be some use to this collection of links. A humble man, john duns scotus has been one of the most influential franciscans through the centuries. St anselm, representing the later medieval consensus, argued that all sin was infinitely grevious because it is an. Selected writings on ethics includes extended discussionsand as far as possible, complete questionson divine and human freedom, the moral attributes of god, the relationship between will and intellect, moral and intellectual virtue, practical reasoning, charity, the metaphysics of goodness and rightness, the various acts. It is, rather, a nonqualitative property of a substance or thing.
Duns scotus is considered one of the most important franciscan theologians and was the founder of scotism, a special form of scholasticism. This is a very complicated argument, with several main and subsidiary steps. The first part of this study is devoted to an exposition of a concept in scotus that i have. Duns scotus scholar commons university of south carolina. In order to help me with regular updates, i am requesting that lacunae be indicated to me by email, providing complete bibliographical information. Scotus is therefore doublypositioned with respect to the heideggerian critique. Scotus studied philosophy and then theology at oxford beginning some time. Duns scotus, along with william ockham, is one of the finest scholastic philosophers of the medieval period. This bibliography contains primary and secondary literature on duns scotus and scotism.
I recently completed a volume of translations of scotuss work on ethics and moral psychology for oxford university press. Among the proofs he gives for the existence of god scotus makes no mention of the proof from motion. Duns the scot, was a scottish catholic priest and franciscan friar, university professor, philosopher, and theologian. One of the subtle doctors rather contrarian contentions against the majority opinion of the medieval scholastic world was his insistence that sin was only finite in magnitude and gravity. The initial revision was probably begun in the summer of 0 see the remarks in question 2 that apparently allude to the battle of homs in 1299, news of which probably reached oxford in the summer of 0. Noel muscat ofm blessed john duns scotus 126566 8 th november 8, besides being known as the subtle doctor. Proof of the existence of god university of kentucky. May 12, 2016 this is by definition a work in progress. Controversy between philosophers and theologians num. Duns scotus on signification 101 between sun and moon. Scotus 126568, one of the brightest stars of medieval philosophy. In this he differs from st thomas, for whom the proof from motion is, apparently, the proof. This essay offers an attempt to explore the relation of duns scotus philosophy to modernity and post. The first step is to show that something among beings is in act which is unqualifiedly first according to efficiency.
The libertarian foundations of scotuss moral philosophy, the thomist 62 1998. Whether it was necessary for man in this present state that some doctrine be supernaturally inspired. As understood by scotus, a haecceity is not a bare particular in the sense of something underlying qualities. Duns scotus on mental content scotuss paris lectures. The philosophy of john duns scotus higher intellect. The warwick journal of philosophy, 18spring 2007, 129146. This title developed out of the clever and ingenious character of his lecturing. The theology of john duns scotus philippe yates ofm the word which summarises duns scotus theology is christocentric.
If i have omitted something especially useful, please let me know. Review edwin rabbitte 1964 philosophical studies dublin. So, while my investigation is conducted with the fact of this turn in mind, my aim is to explore this element. The blessed john duns scotus library offers special lecture twice annually. This small book offers, in a latinenglish editon, a contribution of john duns scotus to the theological discussion on mary the mother of god. Every faithful catholicif they dont alreadyshould get to know john duns scotus, the th century franciscan whose brilliant flights to the heights of speculative theology earned him the nickname the subtle doctor. He came out of the old franciscan school, to which haymo of faversham d. This fact is itself rather impressive given that, along with thomas aquinas and william of ockham, he is reckoned to be one of the most important philosophertheologians of the high middle ages of the eleventh to fourteenth centuries. Common natures and metaphysics in john duns scotus 557 trine of the common nature, is indeed the part of his thought which gets closer to the most daring endeavours of contemporary metaphysical. In both versions of his commentary on the sentences. It was a sad blow to the development of western thought. Blessed john duns scotus, latin given name joannes, byname doctor subtilis, born c.
After having uncovered the infrastructure of john duns. Christ is presented as the basis of all nature, grace and glory the most perfect model of humanity. Michael della penna, ofm the crucified knight video provided fr. Details of his early life are not entirely clear, but he was probably born in duns in. Blessed john duns scotus was the franciscan friar who gave the theological explanation for the immaculate conception in the early 14th century. John duns scotus, whose feast day is saturday, may have earned a permanent place in the pantheon of catholic theologians if for no other reason than the mark he left. Authorsduns scotusordinatioordinatio i the logic museum.
Tonner, p, duns scotus s concept of the univocity of being. Duns scotus and the recognition of divine liberality. Nevertheless, we shall have something to celebrate in 2008. The motion picture tells the story of the life and teachings of duns scotus starting with his refusal to endorse a decree by the king of france against the pope and ending with the. First proposed by john duns scotus 12668, a haecceity is a nonqualitative property responsible for individuation and identity. Pdf common natures and metaphysics in john duns scotus. Unfortunately because scholasticism has a somewhat unfortunate reputation for hair splitting, this important and interesting period of western philosophy is.
Project muse john duns scotus four questions on mary. Blessed john duns scotus library franciscan friars new. Medieval theories of haecceity stanford encyclopedia of. The ordinatio of blessed john duns scotus prologue first part page 23 on the necessity of revealed doctrine single question. Born at duns in the county of berwick, scotland, john was descended from a wealthy farming family. He is one of the three most important philosophertheologians of western europe in the high middle ages, together with thomas aquinas. John duns scotus stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Pdf pdf duns scotus on the reality of selfchange, in selfmotion from aristotle to newton, edited by marylouise gill and jim lennox, princeton university press 1994, 227290. When someone utters a proposition, the proposition is not necessarily accompanied by its significate, since a proposition can express something that is. Scotus ordinatio is his revision of the lectures he gave as a bachelor at oxford, transcribed as the lectura.