Contingent Causality and the Foundations of Duns Scotus' Metaphysics / / Michael Sylwanowicz.
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 a...
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| Superior document: | Studien und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters Series ; Volume 51 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : E.J. Brill,, [1996] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 1996 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ;
Volume 51. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004450351 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Michael Sylwanowicz. |