scholarly journals Efficient Causality in the Actual Intellectual Knowledge According to John Duns Scotus

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Enrique Santiago MAYOCCHI
Keyword(s):  
John Duns Scotus ◽  
Efficient Causality ◽  
Duns Scotus ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Intellectual Knowledge

The subject of causality appears in many of the solutions proposed by Duns Scotus on various philosophical problems, such as voluntary act, and theological problems, as the divine dispensation of grace in the sacraments. This paper shows the kinds of causes and causality which are involved in the actual act of intellection. It focuses on the concept of essential order as the source of the different kinds of causal concurrence, and applies this concept to the act of actual intellection, interpreting it according to the idea of unitas ordinis.

Gerald Odonis on the Notion of esse tertio adiacens

Vivarium ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joke Spruyt
Keyword(s):  
John Duns Scotus ◽  
True Statement ◽  
Duns Scotus ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mental Operations

AbstractGerald Odonis' logic is generous in its acceptance of ontological counterparts of linguistic expressions. He claims that universals have an objective status and are independent of our mental operations. This article takes a closer look at his views on the meaning of what he calls esse tertio adiacens, i.e., the type of being expressed in propositions of the form 'S is P'. To a certain extent Odonis' analysis resembles Peter of Spain's account of compositio. Unlike his predecessor, however, Odonis thinks that the 'being' used in any true statement, regardless of whether the subject exists or not, is univocal. It turns out that Odonis' account is more in line with John Duns Scotus' intensionalist theory of propositional composition.

Singular Intellection in Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s De anima

Vivarium ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 293-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana María Mora-Márquez
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
General Character ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
John Duns Scotus ◽  
De Anima ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Duns Scotus ◽  
Intellectual Knowledge ◽  
Siger Of Brabant ◽  
Bear Witness

AbstractDiscussions about singular cognition, and its linguistic counterpart, are by no means exclusive to contemporary philosophy. In fact, a strikingly similar discussion, to which several medieval texts bear witness, took place in the late Middle Ages. The aim of this article is to partly reconstruct this medieval discussion, as it took place in Parisian question-commentaries on Aristotle’s De anima, so as to show the progression from the rejection of singular intellection in Siger of Brabant (†ca.1283) to the descriptivist positions of John Duns Scotus (†1308) and John of Jandun (†1328), and finally to the singularism of John Buridan (†ca.1360). All these authors accept some kind of intellectual access to individuals. Therefore, the conundrum is not whether we have some kind of intellectual knowledge of individuals, but rather whether we can know them singularly. This article begins by presenting the crucial obstacle to singular intellection in Siger. Thereafter, the author shows that Jandun and Scotus depart in fundamental ways from Siger’s account, but that for them the intellection of individuals is of a general character. Finally, she proposes that Buridan is a genuine singularist.

Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Spell of John Duns Scotus

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Llewelyn
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
John Duns Scotus ◽  
Gerard Manley Hopkins ◽  
Duns Scotus ◽  
Formal Distinction

The Early Mediaeval Scottish philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus shook traditional doctrines of logical universality and logical particularity by arguing for a metaphysics of ‘formal distinction’. Why did the Nineteenth Century poet and self-styled philosopher Gerard Manley Hopkins find this revolutionary teaching so appealing? John Llewelyn answers this question by casting light on various neologisms introduced by Hopkins and reveals how Hopkins endorses Scotus’s claim that being and existence are grounded in doing and willing. Drawing on modern respon ses to Scotus made by Heidegger, Peirce, Arendt, Leibniz, Hume, Reid, Derrida and Deleuze, Llewelyn’s own response shows by way of bonus why it would be a pity to suppose that the rewards of reading Scotus and Hopkins are available only to those who share their theological presuppositions

Supposition and Predication in Medieval Trinitarian Logic

Vivarium ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 260-274
Author(s):  
Simo Knuuttila
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Subject Term ◽  
Duns Scotus ◽  
The Subject

Abstract Many fourteenth-century logicians took affirmative propositions to maintain that the subject term and the predicate term stand or supposit for the same. This is called the identity theory of predication by historians and praedicatio identica (or one form of praedicatio identica) by Paul of Venice and others. The identity theory of predication was an important part of early fourteenth-century Trinitarian discussions as well, but what was called praedicatio identica by Duns Scotus and his followers in this context was something different. After some remarks on Scotus’s view and its background, I shall analyse Adam Wodeham’s explanation of Scotus’s praedicatio identica and how he understood the assumptions pertaining to supposition in the Scotist approach. I also describe Wodeham’s own solution to Trinitarian sophisms, which did not deviate from the identity theory of predication.

John Duns Scotus

2011 ◽  
pp. 611-619
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Izbicki ◽  
Russell L. Friedman ◽  
R. W. Dyson ◽  
Vilém Herold ◽  
Ota Pavlíček ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
John Duns Scotus ◽  
Duns Scotus

scholarly journals Libertar a verdade a modernidade antimoderna de João Duns Scotus

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (272) ◽  
pp. 844
Author(s):  
Orlando Todisco
Keyword(s):  
Power Domination ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Second Moment ◽  
Duns Scotus ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Subject

O Autor, seguindo Duns Scotus, avalia as possibilidades e os limites da lógica fundamental da cultura moderna, fundada sobre uma concepção do sujeito como poder-domínio, para, num segundo momento, apresentar as possibilidades da liberdade criativa, baseada na cultura do dom, da gratuidade.Abstract: The Author, after Duns Scotus, assesses the possibilities and the limits of the fundamental logic of modern culture, grounded on a conception of the subject as power-domination, for, in a second moment, to present the possibilities of the creative freedom, based on the culture of the gift, of the gratuity.

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