Duns Scotus (1266-1308 CE), theologian/philosopher/metaphysician
Bernardino M. Bonansea, Man and His Approach to God in John Duns Scotus (Lanham: University Press of America, 1983).
Frederick C. Copleston, Medieval Philosophy (New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, 1961).
Peter King, “Duns Scotus on Metaphysics” in The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus, ed. Thomas Williams (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 15-68.
Mary Beth Ingham and Mechtild Dreyer, The Philosophical Vision of John Duns Scotus: An Introduction (Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004).
William A. Frank and Allan Bernard Wolter, Duns Scotus, Metaphysician, Purdue University Press Series in the History of Philosophy (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1995).
Etienne Gilson, History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages, New York: Random House, 1955.
Etienne Gilson, Being and Some Philosophers. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1961.
Colin Gunton, Act and Being: Towards a Theology of the Divine Attributes , Grand Rapids: W. B. Eerdmans, 2003.
Anthony Kenny, Medieval Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy, vol. 2 Oxford University Press, 2005.
Also see:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/duns-scotus/
https://www.academia.edu/25275580/Duns_Scotus_Bibliography_from_1950_to_the_Present_9th_edition_May_2016_
https://lyfaber.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-text-on-scotus-on-essence-and.html
11 comments:
This is helpful!
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r250p
http://peped.org/philosophicalinvestigations/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/10/Article-Religious-Language.pdf
Thanks for the JSTOR link, Duncan. Antonie Vos produced an excellent work about Duns Scotus: it came out just as I was finishign grad school. I have a copy of the work, but let me warn you, the book is not an introductory work. Start small with Scotus: his nickname was the "Subtle Doctor" (Doctor Subtilis).
Here's the Mack Daddy of medieval thought: https://broadviewpress.com/product/basic-issues-in-medieval-philosophy-second-edition/#tab-table-of-contents
I once used this book on a regular basis for teaching medieval thought.
Thanks, I recently attempted to get into scotus (using online materials and some general philosophy books I have, I'm waiting on the libraries to open up again), and I've realized he's really difficult (more so than Aquinas, who I think I have a handle of, at least the basics), and need some basic reading.
It's not just you, Roman: Scotus is very difficult. His arguments are interesting once you master the vocab and writing style. But most of us have to start with introductory works, then build from there. After I posted the information above, I came across this helpful site: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396577/obo-9780195396577-0334.xml
I've been reading more about Scotus's thought, specifically his demonstration of the existance of God and his idea of our knowledge of God ... and all I can say is I feel stupid for taking the whole "Radical Orthodoxy" Thomist carucature of his thought as narrow-minded-analytic/reductionist on uncritically ... His demosntration of the existance of God and his notion of infinity is still something I'm trying to get my head around, but Scotus is definately, as you said, a mensch, a rich theological thinker, now I'm mad at John Milbank :P.
Don't feel bad: I got these caricatures presented to me as well some years ago through certain books and some professors, but after reading Scotus' work for myself and checking a number of sources, it became clear that he was rightfully called the subtle doctor.
Another common mistake is to conflate Scotus's thought with Ockham's, which is also wrong. Again, don't sweat it :)
2 more sources:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/john-duns-scotus-9780567695253/
I haven't read the whole thing, but I've read parts of it (the parts relating to what I'm interested in, i.e. the inifinity of God, theology proper).
https://medium.com/the-liturgical-legion/john-duns-scotus-the-trinity-simplicity-univocality-and-much-more-72e0eed77f90
helpful in breaking it down to my level.
Thanks for adding these sources, Brother.
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