DunsScotus on the Nature of Justice.T. Allan Hillman &Tully Borland -2019 -Studia Neoaristotelica 16 (2):275-305.detailsDunsScotus has a remarkably unique and comprehensive theory concerning the nature of justice. Alas, commentators on his work have yet to full flesh out the details. Here, we begin the process of doing so, focusing primarily on his metaethical views on justice, i.e., what justice is or amounts to. WhileScotus’s most detailed account of justice can be found in his Ordinatio, we find further specifics emerging in a number of other contexts and works. We argue (...) thatScotus offers a unique contribution in the history of philosophy: justice in God is a formality, in humans a virtue, and when attributed to actions, a relation. Even though formalities, virtues, and relations are ontologically distinct items, each can satisfyScotus’s preferred Anselmian definition of justice—rectitude of will preserved for its own sake—since each characterizes a will aimed at rendering to goodness what is its due. (shrink)
Recent work on the philosophy ofdunsscotus.Richard Cross -2010 -Philosophy Compass 5 (8):667-675.detailsThis article highlights five areas ofScotus' philosophy that have recently been the subject of scholarly discussion. (1) Metaphysics : I outline the most current accounts ofScotus on individuation (thisness or haecceity) and the common nature. (2) Modal theory : I consider recent accounts both ofScotus' innovations in spelling out the notion of the logically (and broadly logically) possible, and of his account of the independence of modality. (3) Cognitive psychology : I examine recent views (...) ofScotus' theory of intentionality and the nature of mental content. (4) Semantics : I look at contemporary expositions ofScotus' view that words signify things. (5)Metaethics and ethics : I briefly describe conflicting interpretations ofScotus'metaethics, and discuss whetherScotus should be thought of as adopting some kind of divine-command theory or not. I note tooScotus' claim that virtues and passions can be located in the will. (shrink)
DunsScotus: Philosophical Writings.JohnDunsScotus -1962 - Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company. Edited by Allan B. Wolter.detailsThe philosophical writings ofDunsScotus, one of the most influential philosophers of the Later Middle Ages, are here presented in a volume that presents the original Latin with facing page English translation._ CONTENTS: _ Foreword to the Second Edition. Preface. Introduction. Select Bibliography. I. Concerning Metaphysics II. Man’s Natural Knowledge of God III. The Existence of God IV. The Unicity of God V. Concerning Human Knowledge VI. The Spirituality and Immortality of the Human Soul Notes. Index of (...) Proper Names. Index of Subjects. (shrink)
DunsScotus on time & existence: the questions on Aristotle's "De interpretatione.JohnDunsScotus -2014 - Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. Edited by Edward Buckner.detailsAn English translation of JohnDunsScotus's The Questions on Aristotle's "De Interpretatione" including an extensive commentary on some ofScotus's more difficult ideas.
JohnDunsScotus' political and economic philosophy.JohnDunsScotus -2001 - St. Bonaventure, N.Y.: Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure University. Edited by Allan Bernard Wolter.detailsScotus - unlike Thomas Aquinas - never commented on Aristotle's Politics nor did he write any significant political tracts like Ockham. Nevertheless, despite his primary philosophical reputation as a metaphysician,Scotus did have certain definitive ideas about both politics and the morality of the marketplace.
Scotus on the existence of a first efficient cause.Timothy O'Connor -1993 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 33 (1):17 - 32.detailsA lengthy argument for the existence of a being possessing most of the attributes ascribed to God in traditional philosophical theology is set forth by JohnDunsScotus in the final two chapters of his Tractatus De Primo Principio.1 In 3.1-19,Scotus tries to establish the core of his proof, viz., that "an absolutely first effective is actually existent." It is an ingenious blend of elements that figure in standard versions of the cosmological and ontological arguments. However, (...) while the reader of De Primo is apt to be deeply intrigued by the suggestiveness and originality ofScotus' discussion, attempting to organize and interpret the various threads of argument is a challenging task. This no doubt partially explains the relative neglect ofScotus' argument in contemporary discussion of theistic proofs. In what follows, I offer a reading of the argument as well as my critical assessment of it. I will contend thatScotus is unable to achieve all that he wants, in that a critical aspect of his official version of the argument is centrally flawed. However, the text also seems to suggest a modified version of the proof which relies on intuitive support for a possibility claim. I maintain that this form of the proof is sound. Furthermore, owing to the comparative weakness of its underived premises,Scotus' proof can be seen to offer a novel and appealing alternative to the more widely advertised versions of the cosmological and ontological arguments. If I am right, then,Scotus' De Primo has an important contribution to make to the contemporary discussion of an issue of perennial philosophical concern. (shrink)
Philosophical writings: a selection.JohnDunsScotus -1987 - Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co.. Edited by Allan Bernard Wolter.detailsThe philosophical writings ofDunsScotus, one of the most influential philosophers of the Later Middle Ages, are here presented in a volume that presents the original Latin with facing page English translation. CONTENTS: Foreword to the Second Edition. Preface. Introduction. Select Bibliography. I. Concerning Metaphysics II. Man's Natural Knowledge of God III. The Existence of God IV. The Unicity of God V. Concerning Human Knowledge VI. The Spirituality and Immortality of the Human Soul Notes. Index of Proper (...) Names. Index of Subjects. (shrink)
Selected writings on ethics.JohnDunsScotus -2017 - Oxford: Oxford University Press. Edited by Thomas Williams.detailsThomas Williams presents the most extensive collection of JohnDunsScotus's work on ethics and moral psychology available in English. JohnDunsScotus: Selected Writings on Ethics includes extended discussions-and as far as possible, complete questions-on 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, affections, and passions of the will, justice, the natural law, (...) sin, marriage and divorce, the justification for private property, and lying and perjury. 00Relying on the recently completed critical edition of the Ordinatio and other critically edited texts, this collection presents the most reliable and up-to-date versions ofScotus's work in an accessible and philosophically informed translation. (shrink)
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Quaestiones super secundum et tertium De anima.JohnDunsScotus -2006 - St. Bonaventure, N.Y.: Franciscan Institute of St. Bonaventure University. Edited by Bernardo C. Bazàn.detailsThis volume is the fifth and final volume in the Blessed JohnDunsScotus Opera philosophica series. It offers readersScotus' questions on Aristotle's De anima wherein he focuses his attention upon the faculties of sensation, the nature of the intellect, the role of the intelligible species in cognition, and the formal object of the intellect.
A treatise on God as first principle.JohnDunsScotus -1966 - [Chicago?]: Forum Books. Edited by Allan Bernard Wolter.detailsIt was this kind of priority Aristotle had in mind in his proof that act is prior to potency in the ninth book of the Metaphysics where he calls act prior ...
B. IoannisDuns Scoti Opera philosophica.JohnDunsScotus -1997 - St. Bonaventure, N.Y.: Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure University. Edited by Girard J. Etzkorn, Robert R. Andrews, Bernardo C. Bazàn, Mechthild Dreyer & John Duns Scotus.detailsI. Quaestiones in librum Porphyrii Isagoge ; et , Quaestiones super Praedicamenta Aristotelis -- II. Quaestiones in libros Perihermenias Aristotelis ; Quaestiones super librum Elenchorum Aristotelis ; Theoremata -- III. Quaestiones super libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis, libri I-V -- IV. Quaestiones super libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis, libri VI-IX -- V. Quaestiones super secundum et tertium De anima.
FromMetaethics to Action Theory.Thomas Williams -2002 - InThe Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 332-351.detailsWork onScotus's moral psychology and action theory has been concerned almost exclusively with questions about the relationship between will and intellect and in particular about the freedom of the will itself. In this essay I broaden the scope of inquiry. For I contend thatScotus's views in moral psychology are best understood against the background of a long tradition of metaethical reflection on the relationship between being and goodness. In the first section of this essay, therefore, I (...) sketch the main lines of that tradition in medieval thinking and examine the novel and sometimes daring ways in whichScotus appropriated them. In the sections that follow I elaborate on three areas ofScotus's action theory, very broadly conceived, in which his modifications of the medieval metaethical tradition can be seen bearing philosophical fruit. Thus, in the second section I examine his account of the goodness of moral acts, in the third his understanding of the passive dispositions of both sensitive appetite and will, and in the fourth his account of the active power of will. (shrink)
Questions on Aristotle's Categories.JohnDunsScotus -2014 - Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press.detailsThis work is the first English translation ofScotus's commentary on Aristotle's Quaestiones super Praedicamenta. Although there are numerous Latin commentaries on Aristotle's Categories,Scotus's Questions is one of the few commentaries on the Categories written in the thirteenth century covering all of Aristotle's text, including the often neglected post-praedicamenta, and the only complete Latin commentary available in English. Moreover, unlike many of the commentaries,Scotus's text is one of the last commentaries to be written before the (...) nominalist reduction of the categories to substance and quality. The question format allowsScotus a great deal of liberty to discuss the categories in detail, as well as matters that are only remotely raised by the text. Altogether, the forty-four questions cover the following subjects: questions 1-4 are prolegomena to the work itself and raise the question of its subject matter as well as whether there can be a science of the categories; questions 5-8 deal with equivocals, univocals, and denominatives; questions 9-11 discuss Aristotle's two rules regarding predication and the sufficiency of the categories; questions 12-36 discuss the four main categories treated by Aristotle, namely, substance, quantity, relation, and quality; and the remaining eight questions discuss the post-praedicamenta. (shrink)
On being and cognition: Ordinatio 1.3.JohnDunsScotus -2016 - New York: Fordham University Press. Edited by John van den Bercken.detailsPages:1 to 25 -- Pages:26 to 50 -- Pages:51 to 75 -- Pages:76 to 100 -- Pages:101 to 125 -- Pages:126 to 150 -- Pages:151 to 175 -- Pages:176 to 200 -- Pages:201 to 225 -- Pages:226 to 250 -- Pages:251 to 275 -- Pages:276 to 300 -- Pages:301 to 312.
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Opera omnia: editio minor.JohnDunsScotus -1998 - Alberobello (BA): AGA, Alberobello. Edited by Giovanni Lauriola.details1. Opera philosophica -- 2, [pt.] 1, 3, [pt.] 1. Opera theologica.
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La teoria modale di GiovanniDuns Scoto: il caso della relazione tra creatura e creatore e la condizione di beatitudine.Ernesto Dezza,Luca Parisoli &JohnDunsScotus (eds.) -2018 - Roma: Antonianum.detailsPt. 1. Rassegna storiografica sulla teoria della modalità -- pt 2. Testi di GiovanniDuns Scoto -- pt. 3. Il caso della relazione tra creatura e Creatore nella condizione di dannazione e di beatudine.
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Źródła normatywności według Jana Dunsa Szkota.Martyna Koszkało -2010 -Ruch Filozoficzny 67 (4).detailsThe paper is devoted to the question of the sources of normativity in JohnDunsScotus. Confronted with different conceptions of the sources of normativity listed by Christine M. Korsgaard,DunsScotus’ conception turns out to be hybrid because he iterweaves realistic and voluntaristic elements. InScotus’ ethics one can find the sources of normativity analizing: (1) subjective condition of the agent such as beeing free and rational; (2) objective foundations of moral norms such as (...) natural law; (3) external authority of the law maker (God’s will). The following questions have been raised: “Why is the will, according toScotus, rational?”; “What are the conditions for the exeptions of the Second Tablet Commadments ?”; “Can one callScotus’ position a type of metaethical voluntarism or Divine Command Ethics?”. The article also highlights the varius meanings of the term “voluntarism” with reference toScotus’ ethics. (shrink)
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Qui melius scit exponere, exponat!Lukáš Novák -2022 -Studia Neoaristotelica 19 (2):139-176.detailsJohnDunsScotus’s famous doctrine of the formal distinction has a twofold justification: a theological one, stemming from the necessity to express coherently the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity, and a metaphysical one, according to which formal distinction is a necessary condition of the abstraction of universal (objective) concepts from individuals. This paper is a detailed analysis of this latter argument, presented byScotus in Questions on Metaphysics VII, q. 19.Scotus apparently demolishes the alternative (...) theory of intentional distinction proposed by Henry of Ghent, but not without first attempting to defend it in as refined and powerful form as possible. Given that Henry’s notion of intentional distinction is substantially the same as later Thomits’s “distinctio rationis ratiocinatae”, this rises questions about the validity about the latter notion, both in the context of Scotism (such as in the thought of Bartolomeo Mastri) and in genereal. (shrink)