The Crux

Author(s):  
John Llewelyn

Gerard Manley Hopkins called John Duns Scotus the rarest-veinèd unraveller of realty (sic). But unravelling and ravelling call for unravelling in order to lay bare that their meanings turn on the crucial antagonymy that throughout this book will be named chiasmus or chiasm. Another example of such crossover is a certain middle-voiced relation of activity and passivity which, subsequent chapters will show, meshes with the relation between intention and attention in which the latter is seen to have at least as much importance as its less neglected partner, phenomenological or quasi-phenomenological intentionality.

Author(s):  
John Llewelyn

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


1988 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-364
Author(s):  
Hywel Thomas

The lord whose is the oracle at Delphoi neither utters nor conceals his meaning, but reveals it with a sign.(Heracleitos fragment)In the eternal truth from which all temporal things are made, we behold the form … and we have within us like a word the knowledge of what we have conceived.(St augustine, De Trin.)For the invisible things of Him, since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood through the things that are made.(St Paul, Romans i, 20)


Author(s):  
Thomas M. Izbicki ◽  
Russell L. Friedman ◽  
R. W. Dyson ◽  
Vilém Herold ◽  
Ota Pavlíček ◽  
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Ars Adriatica ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Bojan Goja

The monastery of the Conventual Franciscans at Šibenik houses a valuable collection of incunables among which the illuminated examples deserve particular attention. The incunable of John Duns Scotus’ Scriptum in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi (Johannes de Colonia et Johannes Manthen, Venice, 1477) is decorated with high-quality figural and phytomorphic illuminations displaying marked similarities with the works of Giovanni Vendramin, a Renaissance miniaturist from Padua. The edition of Caesar’s Commentariorvm de bello Gallico (Milan, Antonius Zarotus, 1477) features decorative frames with white vine stalks (bianchi girari). This type of the decorative frame was frequently used by Giovanni Vendramin and the examples from Šibenik are closely related to some of his works, especially those made for the Bishop of Padua Jacopo Zeno.


2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-132
Author(s):  
Ernesto Dezza

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