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John Duns Scotus's (Non)Naturalism about Goodness
History of Philosophy QuarterlyG. E. Moore argued that goodness is not identical to any natural properties on the basis of the Open Question Argument. John Duns Scotus agrees, and for the same reason, at least with respect to transcendental being and goodness.
D. Kemp
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Non tantum… sed… A Note on an Easily Misunderstood Grammatical Construction in Duns Scotus
Studia NeoaristotelicaThe purpose of this paper is to propose and defend what I take to be the correct reading of the phrase non tantum… sed… as it is used by Duns Scotus. I identify two possible interpretations of the phrase — the Additive Interpretation and the Intensive ...
L. Novak
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2019
After a brief summary of Duns Scotus’ life and works, this chapter offers an overview of Scotus’ theology, showing how Scotus’ principal theological aim was theoretical generality: the attempt to treat of God and creatures using the same metaphysical tools—in particular, the same theories of unity and distinction.
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After a brief summary of Duns Scotus’ life and works, this chapter offers an overview of Scotus’ theology, showing how Scotus’ principal theological aim was theoretical generality: the attempt to treat of God and creatures using the same metaphysical tools—in particular, the same theories of unity and distinction.
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1999
Abstract The nature and content of the thought of Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308) remains largely unknown except by the expert. This book provides an accessible account of Scotus’ theology, focusing both on what is distinctive in his thought, and on issues where his insights might prove to be of perennial value.
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Abstract The nature and content of the thought of Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308) remains largely unknown except by the expert. This book provides an accessible account of Scotus’ theology, focusing both on what is distinctive in his thought, and on issues where his insights might prove to be of perennial value.
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2017
This chapter argues that John Duns Scotus has several goals in the epistemology of theology: logical consistency, certainty, truth, and right praxis. The first section covers the natural knowledge of God, in which Scotus defends the claim that there are some non-complex univocal concepts, that they can be the building blocks of complex analogical ...
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This chapter argues that John Duns Scotus has several goals in the epistemology of theology: logical consistency, certainty, truth, and right praxis. The first section covers the natural knowledge of God, in which Scotus defends the claim that there are some non-complex univocal concepts, that they can be the building blocks of complex analogical ...
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1980
The cosmological argument of John Duns (1265–1308) of Scotland has been hailed as ‘a landmark in the history of the cosmological argument’, one that is much more significant than those of his predecessors1; indeed, the complexity and length of Scotus’s case for the existence of God make Aquinas’s proofs look like the summary arguments for theological ...
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The cosmological argument of John Duns (1265–1308) of Scotland has been hailed as ‘a landmark in the history of the cosmological argument’, one that is much more significant than those of his predecessors1; indeed, the complexity and length of Scotus’s case for the existence of God make Aquinas’s proofs look like the summary arguments for theological ...
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Interpreting Duns Scotus: critical essays
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2023Mary Beth Ingham
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2009
This chapter examines the theologies of the sacraments of John Duns Scotus, one of the most important theologians and philosophers of the High Middle Ages. Scotus viewed sacraments as “signs of God’s salvific activity” in the lives of believers and fascinatingly asserted that “the seven sacraments—baptism, Eucharist, confirmation, confession, unction ...
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This chapter examines the theologies of the sacraments of John Duns Scotus, one of the most important theologians and philosophers of the High Middle Ages. Scotus viewed sacraments as “signs of God’s salvific activity” in the lives of believers and fascinatingly asserted that “the seven sacraments—baptism, Eucharist, confirmation, confession, unction ...
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