Duns Scotus, Metaphysician

William A. Frank, Allan B. Wolter (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

234 Seiten

1995
Purdue University Press (Verlag)
978-1-55753-072-1 (ISBN)

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Long recognized as one of the greatest medieval philosophical theologians, John Duns Scotus made his most innovative theoretical contributions in the area of metaphysics. A careful and detailed study of his argument for the existence of God and the theory of knowledge that makes this possible provides the most direct access to his basic ideas. Unlike the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas or Anselm's famous Proslogion argument, Scotus's proof is of another order of complexity and amounts to a little summa of his metaphysics. Among those theologians to accept Aristotle's scientific theory, Scotus is perhaps the first to realize fully its negative consequences if the philosophical doctrines of divine illumination and the analogical concept of being interact. His treatment of the God-question is distinguished for its deliberatively holistic approach to what was conventionally a series of unrelated topics.

William A. Frank has a doctorate in philosophy from Catholic University of America.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.1.1996
Reihe/Serie	Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
Verlagsort	West Lafayette
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	396 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-55753-072-6 / 1557530726
ISBN-13	978-1-55753-072-1 / 9781557530721
Zustand	Neuware