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This study challenges the current view that the originality of Duns Scotus' notion of contingent causality lies in modal logic. It works as an ontological concept, and so provides a point of entry into the foundations of Duns Scotus' metaphysics.
As one of two basic manifestations of the active causal power of being, it points to Scotus' underlying ontology, which can no longer be seen as a failure to attain Aquinas' clarity. We have a positive alternative, capable of generating the characteristic Scotist theses: univocity of being, formal distinction, haecceitas, proof of God's existence from possibility, the producibility of God's ideas.
The exploration of the role contingent causality plays in Scotus' and Bradwardine's views on free will and predestination, and Bradwardine's claim that 'God can undo the past', opens the way towards new interpretations.
As one of two basic manifestations of the active causal power of being, it points to Scotus' underlying ontology, which can no longer be seen as a failure to attain Aquinas' clarity. We have a positive alternative, capable of generating the characteristic Scotist theses: univocity of being, formal distinction, haecceitas, proof of God's existence from possibility, the producibility of God's ideas.
The exploration of the role contingent causality plays in Scotus' and Bradwardine's views on free will and predestination, and Bradwardine's claim that 'God can undo the past', opens the way towards new interpretations.
Price: $254.00
Pages: 278
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters
Publication Date:
01 October 1996
ISBN: 9789004105355
Format: Other
'...une recherche de grande envergure sur Duns Scot en dialogue avec les philosophes, dans le souci constant de pénétrer dan la pensée de chacun.'
Camille Bérubé, Collectanea Franciscana, 1998.
Camille Bérubé, Collectanea Franciscana, 1998.
Michael Sylwanowicz, Ph.D. (1990), Warburg Institute, University of London, is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the Franciscan Study Centre, Canterbury (1991-1995). At present he is writing a volume on aspects of ontological possibility in Henry of Ghent.