Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham write by Thomas Michael Osborne. This book was released on 2014. Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book sets out a thematic presentation of human action, especially as it relates to morality, in the three most significant figures in Medieval Scholastic thought: Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham
Thomas Aquinas & John Duns Scotus
Thomas Aquinas & John Duns Scotus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Aquinas & John Duns Scotus write by Alex Hall. This book was released on 2007-02-05. Thomas Aquinas & John Duns Scotus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus are arguably the most celebrated representatives of the 'Golden Age' of scholasticism. Primarily, they are known for their work in natural theology, which seeks to demonstrate tenets of faith without recourse to premises rooted in dogma or revelation. Scholars of this Golden Age drew on a wealth of tradition, dating back to Plato and Aristotle, and taking in the Arabic and Jewish interpretations of these thinkers, to produce a wide variety of answers to the question 'How much can we learn of God?' Some responded by denying us any positive knowledge of God. Others believed that we have such knowledge, yet debated whether its acquisition requires some action on the part of God in the form of an illumination bestowed on the knower. Scotus and Aquinas belong to the more empirically minded thinkers in this latter group, arguing against a necessary role for illumination. Many scholars believe that Aquinas and Scotus exhaust the spectrum of answers available to this circle, with Aquinas maintaining that our knowledge is quite confused and Scotus that it is completely accurate. In this study, Alexander Hall argues that the truth about Aquinas and Scotus lies somewhere in the middle. Hall's book recommends itself to the general reader who is looking for an overview of this period in Western philosophy as well as to the specialist, for no other study on the market addresses this long-standing matter of interpretation in any detail.
The Immaculate Conception
The Immaculate Conception - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Immaculate Conception write by Father Christiaan W. Kappes. This book was released on 2014-03-25. The Immaculate Conception available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This second volume of the series Mariological Studies in Honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe treats the mystery of the Immaculate Conception, hidden in plain sight for nearly a thousand years prior to Bl. John Duns Scotus and his later influence at the Council of Florence. Until now, practically nothing was known of this history. Key to the present study is St. Gregory Nazianzen, whose Marian doctrine inspired Benedict XVI at a 2007 public audience: "Mary, who gave human nature to Christ, is true Mother of God and, in view of her highest mission, was 'prepurified,' as if a distant prelude of the Immaculate Conception." Fr. Kappes' groundbreaking thesis confirms Benedict's insight beyond anything previously imaginable. The person and mystery of Mary in Christ and the Church unfolds as indispensable for ecumenical theology. Greco-Latin agreement on the Immaculate Conception at Florence was itself a portent to subsequent harmony on other doctrinal questions, then, as now. As Pope Francis intensifies efforts to resolve differences between Orthodox and Catholics, Fr. Kappes' research clarifies Our Lady's central role in these efforts.
John Duns Scotus on Parts, Wholes, and Hylomorphism
John Duns Scotus on Parts, Wholes, and Hylomorphism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John Duns Scotus on Parts, Wholes, and Hylomorphism write by Thomas M. Ward. This book was released on 2014-07-17. John Duns Scotus on Parts, Wholes, and Hylomorphism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In John Duns Scotus on Parts, Wholes, and Hylomorphism, Thomas M. Ward examines Scotus's arguments for his distinctive version of hylomorphism, the view that at least some material objects are composites of matter and form. It considers Scotus's reasons for adopting hylomorphism, and his accounts of how matter and form compose a substance, how extended parts, such as the organs of an organism, compose a substance, and how other sorts of things, such as the four chemical elements (earth, air, fire, and water) and all the things in the world, fail to compose a substance. It highlights the extent to which Scotus draws on his metaphysics of essential order to explain why some things can compose substance and why others cannot. Throughout the book, contemporary versions of hylomorphism are discussed in ways that both illumine Scotus's own views and suggest ways to advance contemporary debates.
Duns Scotus
Duns Scotus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Duns Scotus write by Richard Cross. This book was released on 1999-06-17. Duns Scotus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is an accessible introduction to the life and thought of John Duns Scotus (c. 1266--1308), the scholastic philosopher and theologian who came to be called the Subtle Doctor. A native of Scotland (as his name implies), Scotus became a Franciscan and taught in Oxford, Paris, and Cologne. In his writings he put Aristotelian thought to the service of Christian theology and was the founder of a school of scholasticism called Scotism, which was often opposed to the Thomism of the followers of Thomas Aquinas. In particular, Scotus is well known for his defense of contra-causal free will and logical possibility and for his account of individuation in terms of "haecceity" or "thisness." Cross offers a clear introductory account of the most significant aspects of Scotus's theological thought. Theology is here construed broadly to include Scotus's philosophical investigation of God's existence and attributes. In addition to providing a clear, though not always uncritical, outline of Scotus's positions, Cross aims to show how Scotus's theories fit into modern debates, particularly contemporary debates in philosophical theology, and to point out Scotus's historical significance in the development of theology.
