Duns Scotus, John

Duns Scotus, John
(c. 1266-1308)
   A Scottish-born Franciscan scholastic philosopher and theologian, Duns Scotus died before he could produce a Summa Theologiae or even revise his existing works, such as his commentaries on Peter Lombard's Sentences. He is known for his views that the will could go against the intellect, that God had to become incarnate irrespective of sin and that the moral law was decreed by God, but necessarily so decreed. He also argued for a univocal account of language about God and creatures, defended realism against nominalism concerning universals, and claimed that different individuals could share every property except haecceity (and entailed properties). He was nicknamed 'the subtle doctor', but a less positive appreciation of him is detectable in the origin of our word 'dunce'. His work exercised considerable influence on the Franciscan order because of its forthright move away from a strict Thomism and reversion to a more old-fashioned Augustinianism.
   Further reading: Cross 1999 and 2004; Duns Scotus 1950-, 1987 and 1997-; Williams, Thomas 2003; Wolter 1990 and 2003

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