The two most important concepts in duns scotuss 126568 theology of the atonement are satisfaction and merit. Men and women cry out for an experience of hope in a world which has lost direction in the teaching of duns scotus, franciscan spirituality has within its hand. Pdf duns scotus and the knowledge of the singular revisited. The two most important concepts in duns scotus s 126568 theology of the atonement are satisfaction and merit. Scotus s voluntarism, which includes the claim that nearly all of gods relations with the created order are contingent. The ordinatio of blessed john duns scotus translated by peter l p simpson from the vatican critical edition of the latin text edited by the scotus commission in rome and published by quarrachi.
Veldhuis, ordained and absolute power in scotus ordinatio i. Duns scotus and the recognition of divine liberality university of. This is a very complicated argument, with several main and subsidiary steps. Duns scotus and the recognition of divine liberality william a frank the first part of this study is devoted to an exposition of a concept in scotus that i have called natures fitting insufficiency. So, he turned to our lady in prayer, begging her to open his mind. 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. Duns scotus is considered one of the most important franciscan theologians and was the founder of scotism, a special form of scholasticism. The subtle doctor, of realty the rarestveined unraveller i. Scotus 126568, one of the brightest stars of medieval philosophy. Duns scotus project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. The ordinatio of blessed john duns scotus prologue first part page 23 on the necessity of revealed doctrine single question. Christ is presented as the basis of all nature, grace and glory the most perfect model of humanity. His is a theology which places christ at the centre of a universe ordered by love. John duns scotus is commonly known as doctor subtilis, the subtle doctor, in theological and philosophical circles.
Duns scotus, writes father gemelli, conceived the universe in the form of a gigantic pyramid, built up of every kind of genera and species, rising upward by degrees, the lower stages united in their most noble part to the higher. At the start i locate the plin ciple in the first question of john duns scotuss prologue to his ordinatio, and. Blessed john duns scotus was the franciscan friar who gave the theological explanation for the immaculate conception in the early 14th century. This title developed out of the clever and ingenious character of his lecturing. Pdf this study will examine the ontological dependency between the thinking act of the intellect and the intelligibility of the objects of thought. So, while my investigation is conducted with the fact of this turn in mind, my aim is to explore this element. As a boy, blessed scotus wanted to study and immerse himself in the truths of the faith, but his mind was such that he understood little or nothing. I make no pretensions to this page providing a systematic guide to scotist material that is available online. From the logic museum duns scotus on signification 101 between sun and moon. The ordinatio of blessed john duns scotus book two first. Pdf common natures and metaphysics in john duns scotus. I underestimated somewhat the enormity of the task to clean up the research regarding john duns scotus life.
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content the notion of univocity in duns scotuss early works of all the philosophical innovations for which john duns scotus has been acclaimed, surely the most celebrated is his notion of the univocity of the transcendental concepts, the primary and most important of which was the concept of being. Project muse the notion of univocity in duns scotuss early. Voluntarism, atonement, and duns scotus ward 2015 the. 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. John duns scotus 1265668 was one of the most important and influential philosophertheologians of the high middle ages. The theological doctrine of john duns scotus regarding the immaculate conception is found in volume xx of the lectura in librum tertium sententiarum, in the third distincio, first quaestio, which has the title utrum beata virgo fuerit concepta in peccato originali regarding whether the blessed virgin was conceived in original sin. When someone utters a proposition, the proposition is not necessarily accompanied by its significate, since a proposition can express something that is not the case, no longer the case, or not yet the case. Proof of the existence of god university of kentucky. An ordinatio is a text that has been ordered or edited for publication. This translation of the prologue of the ordinatio aka.
The first step is to show that something among beings is in act which is unqualifiedly first according to efficiency. The minimum canonical age for receiving holy orders is 25 and it is generally assumed that he would have been ordained as soon as it was permitted. John duns scot 1265 8 anglais jean duns scot 12658 francais giovanni duns scoto. Because mary must be a real mother, he rejects the aristotelian view that mothers are merely passive causes in reproduction. Professor of philosophy at the franciscan institute st bonaventure. Duns scotus philosophical writings a selection edited and translated by allan wolter, o. Unfortunately because scholasticism has a somewhat unfortunate reputation for hair splitting, this important and interesting period of western philosophy is. If i have omitted something especially useful, please let me know. Duns scotus scholar commons university of south carolina. Duns scotus on the will and morality, selected and.
The ordinatio of blessed john duns scotus prologue first part on the necessity of revealed doctrine single question. John duns scotus the possibility of the incarnation. The foundations of duns scotus theory of individuation. The theology of john duns scotus philippe yates ofm the word which summarises duns scotus theology is christocentric. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content the notion of univocity in duns scotus s early works of all the philosophical innovations for which john duns scotus has been acclaimed, surely the most celebrated is his notion of the univocity of the transcendental concepts, the primary and most important of which was the concept of being. Whether it was necessary for man in this present state that some doctrine be supernaturally inspired. We must, therefore, see duns scotus as a scotsman, who in his day was a true european. A history of the distinction of absolute and ordained power, bergamo 1990. He came out of the old franciscan school, to which haymo of faversham d. This strikes me as accidental, because i do not see how scotus could have had access to a clear form of the greek theory. In this question notes a, b and c 3 refer to the principle argument. John duns scotus stanford encyclopedia of philosophy.
Well, maybe it is not medieval, but it is the inscription on his tomb since 1870. Scotuss voluntarism, which includes the claim that nearly all of gods relations with the created order are contingent. His brilliantly complex and nuanced thought, which earned him the nickname the subtle doctor, left a mark on discussions of such disparate topics as the semantics of religious language, the problem of universals. Duns scotuss age is based on the first certain date for his life, that of his ordination to the priesthood at st andrews, northampton, england on 17 march 1291.
Duns scotus and the recognition of divine liberality. Duns scotus on divine substance and the trinity 183 scotus adopts a theory that is much closer to that found in the greek fathers. Scotus ordinatio is his revision of the lectures he gave as a bachelor at oxford, transcribed as the lectura. The ordinatio of blessed john duns scotus book two. Early in his career heidegger wrote his postdoctoral teaching qualification or habilitation, duns scotus theory of the categories and of meaning, on. Wolters critically acclaimed book inspired much of the inquiry, and today it remains the standard source on scotus moral philosophy. Scotus estimate of the female gender is shaped by his view that mary is preeminent among merely human saints. Whether primary causality with respect to all causables is of necessity in the three persons num.
Blessed scotus was born in scotland sometime between late 1265 and early 1266. Controversy between philosophers and theologians num. Scotuss doctrine of the absolute centrality of love is both timely and profoundly needed by our world. John duns scotus 1265668 was one of the most important and. Le theologien et philosophe franciscain jean duns scot est generalement presente.
His brilliantly complex and nuanced thought, which earned him the nickname the subtle doctor, left a mark on discussions of such disparate topics as the semantics of religious language, the problem of universals, divine illumination, and the nature of human. After having uncovered the infrastructure of john duns scotus theology johannes duns scotus, 1994, i returned to the sphere of philosophy to concentrate on the massive issue of duns scotus own philosophy. Blessed john duns scotus franciscans of the prairie. Unfortunately because scholasticism has a somewhat unfortunate reputation for hair splitting, this important and interesting period of western philosophy is often neglected in university studies of philosophy. Le possible absolu et le possible ordonne chez jean duns scot. A humble man, john duns scotus has been one of the most influential franciscans through the centuries. Allan wolter duns scotus on intuition, memory and our knowledge of individuals, in the philosophical theology of john duns scotus, ed. Born at duns in the county of berwick, scotland, john was descended from a wealthy farming family. World heritage encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the most definitive. Peter king, in the cambridge companion to john duns scotus, edited by thomas williams, cambridge university press 2003, 1568. Since the original publication of duns scotus on the will and morality in 1986, there has been a remarkable growth of interest in the thought of this early fourteenthcentury franciscan master. Authorsduns scotusordinatioordinatio i the logic museum. The divine nature and scotuss libertarianism a reply to mary beth ingham in her recent paper, letting scotus speak for himself,1 mary beth ingham criticizes the reading of scotuss moral theory that i put forward in the unmitigated scotus and some earlier articles. 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.
Of his antecedents and life very little is definitely known, as the contemporary sources are silent about him. Duns scotus, along with william ockham, is one of the finest scholastic philosophers of the medieval period. 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. Duns scotus ordinatio pdf john duns scotus 66 was one of the most important and the ordinatio, which scotus seems to have been revising up to his. Just what these amount to and how they function in his theory are heavily conditioned by two more general commitments. Voir en dernier lieu, john duns scotus, political and economic. And as is usual in these matters, everyone wants a piece of the successful person. Duns scotus received the religious habit of the friars minor at dumfries, where his uncle, elias duns, was guardian.
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