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Contingent Causality and the Foundations of Duns Scotus' Metaphysics - Couverture rigide

Sylwanowicz

 
9789004105355: Contingent Causality and the Foundations of Duns Scotus' Metaphysics
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004105352 ISBN 13 : 9789004105355
Editeur : Brill, 1996

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Michael Sylwanowicz, Ph.D. (1990), Warburg Institute, University of London, is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the Franciscan Study Centre, Canterbury (1991-1995). At present he is writing a volume on aspects of ontological possibility in Henry of Ghent.

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004105352
ISBN 13 
9789004105355
Reliure
Cuir/luxe
Nombre de pages
288
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