Contingent Causality and the Foundations of Duns Scotus' Metaphysics / / 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 ; 51 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 1996. |
| Year of Publication: | 1996 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1: Towards a Definition of Contingent Causality
- 1. A "modal" concept?
- 2. The idea of the will: some backgrounds
- 3. Immediate conditions for the rise of the idea of contingent causality: towards a definition
- Part 2: Contingent Causality and Fundamental Presuppositions: The Bases of Scotus' Metaphysics
- 4. Choice at an instant and contingent causality
- 5. The constitution of essence and perfection
- 6. Perfection as the presence of intrinsic activity and the basis of its irreducibility
- Part 3: Applications of Contingent Causality
- 7. The human and divine will: freedom, contingent causality and determinism
- 8. Can God undo th epast? An application of contingent causality
- Conclusion
- References
- Index.