The Wallace Book
The Wallace Book

Author: Edward J. Cowan

Publisher: Birlinn

Published: 2012-08-10

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 0857904949

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Through his personality, ingenuity and ability, he initiated a resistance movement which ultimately secured the nation's freedom and independence. Yet, Wallace was reviled, opposed and eventually betrayed by the nobility in his own day to re-surface in the epic poetry of the fifteenth century as a champion and liberator. Eventually, his legend overtook the historical reality, a process which has continued for centuries as manifested in modern media and film. A team of leading historians and critics from both Scotland and England investigate what is known of the medieval warrior's career from contemporary sources, most of which, unusually for a national hero, were created by his enemies. His reputation, from the time of his horrendous execution to the present, is examined to ascertain what the figure of Wallace meant to different generations of Scots. Too dangerous perhaps for his own era, he became the supreme Scottish hero of all time; the archetypal Scot who would teach kings and nobles where their duty lay, and who would live free or freely die for the liberty of his nation.

Duns Scotus and the Problem of Universals
Duns Scotus and the Problem of Universals

Author: Todd Bates

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2010-08-26

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1847062245

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John Duns Scotus (d.1308), known as the ‘subtle doctor' among medieval schoolmen, produced a formidable philosophical theology using and adapting an Aristotelian metaphysical framework. Critical of Thomas Aquinas' grand Summas, Scotus died before producing a final synthesis of his own. Indeed, his work, left in disarray for centuries, has only recently become available in an edited format. Contemporary metaphysics, taking up the problem of universals, treads on ground already well-worked by Scotus. Duns Scotus and the Problem of Universals shows how Scotus' treatment of the problem of universals is both coherent and, even by contemporary standards, cogent. Todd Bates recovers and sets out Scotus' understanding of the structure of material substance, reconstructs Scotus' arguments for universals and haecceities, and shows how Scotus' theory applies to the metaphysics of the Incarnation. This book makes an important contribution to a neglected but crucial area of Scotus scholarship.

Duns Scotus's Theory of Cognition
Duns Scotus's Theory of Cognition

Author: Richard Cross

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2014-09-11

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0191507792

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Richard Cross provides the first complete and detailed account of Duns Scotus's theory of cognition, tracing the processes involved in cognition from sensation, through intuition and abstraction, to conceptual thought. He provides an analysis of the ontological status of the various mental items (acts and dispositions) involved in cognition, and a new account of Scotus on nature of conceptual content. Cross goes on to offer a novel, reductionist, interpretation of Scotus's view of the ontological status of representational content, as well as new accounts of Scotus's opinions on intuitive cognition, intelligible species, and the varieties of consciousness. Scotus was a perceptive but highly critical reader of his intellectual forebears, and this volume places his thought clearly within the context of thirteenth-century reflections on cognitive psychology, influenced as they were by Aristotle, Augustine, and Avicenna. As far as possible, Duns Scotus's Theory of Cognition traces developments in Scotus's thought during the ten or so highly productive years that formed the bulk of his intellectual life.

God, the Flesh, and the Other
God, the Flesh, and the Other

Author: Emmanuel Falque

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 0810130238

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Fons signatus: the sealed source -- Part One. God: chapter 1. Metaphysics and theology in tension (Augustine); chapter 2. God phenomenon (John Scotus Erigena); chapter 3. Reduction and conversion (Meister Eckhart) -- Part Two. The Flesh: chapter 4. The visibility of the flesh (Irenaeus); chapter 5. The solidity of the flesh (Tertullian); chapter 6.- The conversion of the flesh (Bonaventure) -- Part Three. The Other: chapter 7. Community and intersubjectivity (Origen); chapter 8. Angelic alterity (Thomas Aquinas); chapter 9. The singular other (John Duns Scotus) -- By way of conclusion: toward an act of return.

Transzendentale Einheit
Transzendentale Einheit

Author: Wouter Goris

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-09-17

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13: 9004306390

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Transcendental unity is a figure of thought of the Latin Middle Ages, which is indebted to Avicenna’s renewal of metaphysics and which is wrongly attributed to Aristotle. A specific interpretation of the demonstrable attribute determines the metaphysical reflection on ‘the one’ and turns it into a transcendental attribute of being. Notwithstanding the variety of epistemic constellations, however, this metaphysical relationship of being and unity always turns out to be a fundamental state of affairs. Transcendental unity identifies as a problem constellation, the principles of which are still effective in the critique of scholastic metaphysics in classical German philosophy.

Philosophical Writings
Philosophical Writings

Author: Johannes Duns Scotus

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780872200180

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Covers topics such as Concerning Metaphysics, Man's Knowledge of God, The Existence of God, The Unicity of God, Concerning Human Knowledge, and The Spirituality and Immortality of the Human Soul.

Duns Scotus, Metaphysician
Duns Scotus, Metaphysician

Author: William A. Frank

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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This study takes the form of commentary on a series of texts and translations from the works of Scotus. After a short (and perhaps unduly compressed) chapter laying out some of what we know about Scotus's life and writings, Wolter and Frank offer a brief introduction to the discipline of metaphysics as Scotus understood it. Scotus held that metaphysics is the science of the transcendentals, which are 'a family of concepts ... [that] capture the intelligibility of reality prior to its division into the categories' (p. 37). This science reaches its culmination in the philosophical knowledge of God.

Duns Scotus's Doctrine of Categories and Meaning
Duns Scotus's Doctrine of Categories and Meaning

Author: Martin Heidegger

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2022-07-12

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0253062659

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Duns Scotus's Doctrine of Categories and Meaning is a key text for the origins of Martin Heidegger's concept of "facticity." Originally submitted as a postdoctoral thesis in 1915, it focuses on the 13th-century philosopher-theologian John Duns Scotus. Heidegger first analyzes Scotus's doctrine of categories, then offers a meticulous explanation of the Grammatica Speculativa, a work of medieval grammar now known to be authored by the Modist grammarian Thomas of Erfurt. Taken together, these investigations represent an early foray into Heidegger's lifelong philosophical concerns, "the question of being in the guise of the problem of categories and the question of language in the guise of the doctrine of meaning." This new and unique translation of one of Heidegger's earliest works offers an important look at his early thinking before the question of being became his central concern and will appeal to readers exploring Heidegger's philosophical development, medieval philosophy, phenomenological interpretations of the history of philosophy, and the philosophy of language.