Medievalists.net » Duns Scotus http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Duns Scotus: A Brief Introduction to his Life and Thought http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/29/duns-scotus-a-brief-introduction-to-his-life-and-thought/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/29/duns-scotus-a-brief-introduction-to-his-life-and-thought/#comments Sat, 29 Jun 2013 22:00:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=41850 Duns Scotus, from his early years as a philosopher and theologian was confronted with this problem from within Aristotelian philosophy. And he gave a novel answer to it, one which differed from the Thomistic account.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/29/duns-scotus-a-brief-introduction-to-his-life-and-thought/feed/ 0 The Calamitous Fourteenth Century in England: All Doom and Gloom? http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/28/the-calamitous-fourteenth-century-in-england-all-doom-and-gloom/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/28/the-calamitous-fourteenth-century-in-england-all-doom-and-gloom/#comments Tue, 28 May 2013 14:52:29 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=41331 This was a fantastic paper given at the Crown and Country in Late medieval England session at KZOO. There were only two papers but both were interesting and enjoyable. This paper delved into the history of science in late medieval England and examined why the fourteenth century, a time that is usually synonymous with doom and gloom, plague and uprising, wasn't all that bad upon closer observation.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/28/the-calamitous-fourteenth-century-in-england-all-doom-and-gloom/feed/ 0 Faith and reason: charting the medieval concept of the infinite http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/23/faith-and-reason-charting-the-medieval-concept-of-the-infinite/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/23/faith-and-reason-charting-the-medieval-concept-of-the-infinite/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:23:50 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31260 I would like to start with some assumptions. First, I take it for granted that the apposition of negative terms to the Almighty God became quite early an accepted practice in Christianity, which caused in turn that the infinite, as an opposite term to something easily convenient to positive delineation, was admitted in the repertoire of God’s adverbial description.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/23/faith-and-reason-charting-the-medieval-concept-of-the-infinite/feed/ 0 Duns Scotus on Divine Substance and the Trinity http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/20/duns-scotus-on-divine-substance-and-the-trinity/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/20/duns-scotus-on-divine-substance-and-the-trinity/#comments Sat, 20 Nov 2010 21:47:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=12707 Duns Scotus on Divine Substance and the Trinity Cross, Richard (Oriel College, Oxford) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 11 (2003) Abstract Charting a course between modalism (the belief that there is just one divine person) and tritheism (the belief that there are three divine substances or Gods) has long been the major problem for Trinitarian theology. […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/20/duns-scotus-on-divine-substance-and-the-trinity/feed/ 0 Divisibility, Communicability, and Predicability in Duns Scotus’s Theories of the Common Nature http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/19/divisibility-communicability-and-predicability-in-duns-scotus%e2%80%99s-theories-of-the-common-nature/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/19/divisibility-communicability-and-predicability-in-duns-scotus%e2%80%99s-theories-of-the-common-nature/#comments Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:37:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=12658 Divisibility, Communicability, and Predicability in Duns Scotus’s Theories of the Common Nature Cross, Richard (Oriel College Oxford University) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 11 (2003) Abstract As is well-known, Duns Scotus adopts a moderately realist stance on the being of the common natures of categorial entities—substances and accidents. He believes that such natures have extramental being, […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/19/divisibility-communicability-and-predicability-in-duns-scotus%e2%80%99s-theories-of-the-common-nature/feed/ 0 Letting Scotus Speak for Himself http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/15/letting-scotus-speak-for-himself/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/15/letting-scotus-speak-for-himself/#comments Mon, 15 Nov 2010 06:34:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=12474 Letting Scotus Speak for Himself Ingham, Mary Beth (Loyola Marymount University) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 10 (2001) Abstract In “The Unmitigated Scotus,” Thomas Williams calls for another, better reading of the Subtle Doctor: one in which he is able to “speak for himself.” In this and other articles, Williams criticizes recent Scotist scholarship for its […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/15/letting-scotus-speak-for-himself/feed/ 0 Happiness and Freedom in Aquinas’s Theory of Action http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/02/happiness-and-freedom-in-aquinas%e2%80%99s-theory-of-action/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/02/happiness-and-freedom-in-aquinas%e2%80%99s-theory-of-action/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 02:27:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=12043 Happiness and Freedom in Aquinas’s Theory of Action McCluskey, Colleen (Saint Louis University) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 9 (2000) Abstract Thomas Aquinas is commonly thought to hold that human beings will happiness and do so necessarily. This is taken to mean first that human beings are not able to will misery for the sake of […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/02/happiness-and-freedom-in-aquinas%e2%80%99s-theory-of-action/feed/ 0 Scotus on Morality and Nature http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/02/scotus-on-morality-and-nature/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/02/scotus-on-morality-and-nature/#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:35:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=12013 Scotus on Morality and Nature Hare, John (Calvin College) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 9 (2000) Abstract I. THE AFFECTION FOR JUSTICE AND THE AFFECTION FOR ADVANTAGE This article is part of a larger project defending a version of divine command theory in ethics. What I am interested in from Scotus is that he combines such […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/25/species-concept-and-thing-theories-of-signification-in-the-second-half-of-the-thirteenth-century/feed/ 0 Did Scotus Embrace Anselm’s Notion of Freedom? http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/04/did-scotus-embrace-anselms-notion-of-freedom/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/04/did-scotus-embrace-anselms-notion-of-freedom/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:43:17 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=10913 Did Scotus Embrace Anselm’s Notion of Freedom? Langston, Douglas Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 5, no. 2 (1996) Abstract In his “Duns Scotus and the Experience of Human Freedom,” Joseph Incandela outlines three contemporary interpretations of Duns Scotus’s understanding of freedom. Much of the article is devoted to explaining William Frank’s view that Scotus embraces […]

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