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Duns Scotus
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Scottish Franciscan friar and philosopher (c. 1265/66–1308)
Duns Scotus was a Scottish Franciscan friar and philosopher who lived from around 1265 to 1308 and made important contributions to medieval Christian thought. He matters today because his ideas about logic, theology, and the nature of individual things significantly influenced both medieval philosophy and later European intellectual traditions.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- ca. 1266
- Died
- 1308
- Works
- 229
Top works
- Commentaria in 4 libros sententiarum magistri Petri Lombardi
- [De modis significandi, seu, Grammatica speculativa]
- Quaestiones quolibetales
- La dottrina della creazione in Giovanni Duns Scoto
- Questiones Scoti super Uniuersalia Porphy[rii]., necnon Aristotelis Predicamenta ac Peryarmenias, item super libros Elenchorum. Et Antonii Andree Sup[er] libro Sex principio[rum]. Item Q[uesti]ones Joanni Angelici super Questiones vniuersales eiusdem Scoti
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- John Duns Scotus
- date of birth
- 1266-01-01
- date of death
- 1308-11-08
- birth name
- John Duns
- name in native language
- Ioannis Duns Scotus
- pseudonym
- Doctor marianus
- P13311
- vandalism
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Works in European collections
29 objects attributed to Duns Scotus, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Primus liber doctoris subtilis fratris Joannis Duns Scoti ordinis Minorum super Sententias titulus conueniens doctrine atq auctori huius primi Mauritio inuentore..
Ven. P. et Doct. Joan. Duns Scoti ... Qaestiones quatuor voluminum scripti Oxoniensis super Sententias Quodlibeta
Ven. P. et Doct. Joan. Duns Scoti ... Qaestiones quatuor voluminum scripti Oxoniensis super Sententias Quodlibeta
Ven. P. et Doct. Joan. Duns Scoti ... Qaestiones quatuor voluminum scripti Oxoniensis super Sententias Quodlibeta
Ven. P. et Doct. Joan. Duns Scoti ... Qaestiones quatuor voluminum scripti Oxoniensis super Sententias Quodlibeta
Ven. P. et Doct. Joan. Duns Scoti ... Qaestiones quatuor voluminum scripti Oxoniensis super Sententias Quodlibeta
Fratris Ioannis Duns Scoti, Ordinis Minorum... In II & III Lib. Sententiarum perutiles quaestiones plurimis Annotationibus exornatae, in opus quolibetorum, collationum, ac epitomatum, eiusdem doctoris
Fr. Ioannis Duns Scoti Ordinis Minorum... in quatuor sententiarum books perutiles quaestiones, plurimis annotationibus exornatae, in opus quolibetorum, collationum, ac epitomatum eiusdem doctoris
Philosophia Natvralis Io. Dvns Scoti, Ex Qvatvor Libris Sententiarvm, Et Qvodlibetis Collecta; In Theoremata distributa, & contra Aduersarios omnes tàm Veteres, quàm Recentiores... illustrata, ac dilucidata... Et in cuius fine additus est Tractatvs breuis... in Formalitates Scoti. Avctore Fratre Philippo Fabro...
1: Quaestiones in Universalia Porphyrii
Linz, AT-OOeLB, Ink.-417, Quaestiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum (Ed: Philippus Bagnacavallus)
R. P. F. Ioannis Duns Scoti... ordinis minorum Tractatus sex... : tomus tertius...
P. 1/2: Scotus nouissime cum emendatissimo codice parisino castigatus: Additis respōsionibus ad argumenta locis suis: [et] annotationibus opinionum diuerso[rum] doctorum: ac etiam textuum cōmento[rum] Aristotelis in marginibus; Nec nō textu magistri sententiarum apposito titulis questionum
P. 3/4: Scotus nouissime cum emendatissimo codice parisino castigatus: Additis respōsionibus ad argumenta locis suis: [et] annotationibus opinionum diuerso[rum] doctorum: ac etiam textuum cōmento[rum] Aristotelis in marginibus; Nec nō textu magistri sententiarum apposito titulis questionum
R.P. ac fratris Emmanuelis Perez de Quiroga, Ordinis Minorum Regularis Observantiae... Disputationes theologicae in primum librum sententiarum ad mentem doctoris subtilis Ioannis Duns Scoti : tomus primus...
R.P. ac fratris Emmanuelis Perez de Quiroga, Ordinis Minorum Regularis Observantiae... Disputationes theologicae in primum librum sententiarum ad menten doctoris subtilis Ioannis Duns Scoti : tomus secundus...
R.A.P. ac fratris Emmanuelis Perez de Quiroga, Ordinis Minorum Regularis Observantiae... Disputationes theologicae in primum librum sententiarum ad mentem doctoris subtilis Ioannis Duns Scoti : tomus tertius...
Questiones subtilissime Scoti in metaphysicam Aristotelis ; eiusdem De primo rerum principio tractatus atq[ue] theoremata.
Elenchi Joannis Scoti Duns. Petrus Garaottus de forlivio phylosophie Cultor Scoto suo felicitatem
R.P.F. Ioannis Duns Scoti... Quaestiones in lib. II. Sententiarum...
F. Ioan. Duns Scoti ... Disputationes collationales
F. Ioan. Duns Scoti ... Quaestiones quodlibetales ex quatuor voluminibus scripti Oxoniensis super Sententias
Primus liber doctoris subtilis fratris Joannis Duns Scoti ordinis Minorum super Sententias titulus conueniens doctrine atq auctori huius primi Mauritio inuentore..
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John Duns Scotus OFM (/dʌnz ˈskoʊtəs/ dunz SKOH-təs, Ecclesiastical Latin: [duns ˈskɔtus], "Duns the Scot"; c. 1265/66 – 8 November 1308) was a Scottish Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, university professor, philosopher and theologian. He is considered among the most important philosopher-theologians in Western Christendom during the last part of the medieval period, together with Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure and William of Ockham.
Duns Scotus has had considerable influence on both Catholic and secular thought. The doctrines for which he is best known are the "univocity of being", that existence is the most abstract concept we have, applicable to everything that exists; the formal distinction, a way of distinguishing between different formalities of the same thing; and the idea of haecceity, the property supposed to be in each individual thing that makes it an individual (i.e. a certain "thisness"). Duns Scotus also developed a complex argument for the existence of God, and argued for the Immaculate Conception of Mary. The intellectual tradition derived from Scotus' work is called Scotism.
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