Duns Scotus
Scottish priest
John Duns Scotus OFM was a Scottish Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, university professor, philosopher and theologian. He is one of the four most important Christian philosopher-theologians of Western Europe in the High Middle Ages, together... Wikipedia
Born: Duns, United Kingdom
Died: November 8, 1308, Cologne, Germany
Influenced: René Descartes, Martin Heidegger, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and more
Influenced by: Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, and more
Attributes: Books, a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the moon on the chest of a Franciscan friar
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May 31, 2001 · John Duns Scotus (1265/66–1308) was one of the most important and influential philosopher-theologians of the High Middle Ages.
Metaphysical argument for the existence of God edit · Something can be produced. · It is produced either by itself, nothing, or another. · Not by nothing, for ...
Scotus means to show not just that the will is a higher power than the intellect, however. He argues for the remarkable claim that the will is unique among all ...
Jul 11, 2022 · John Duns Scotus was one of the most influential thinkers of the Middle Ages, often mentioned alongside more commonly familiar names like ...
Aug 3, 2023 · His name is now the byword for a fool, yet his proof for the existence of God was the most rigorous of the medieval period.
He sets great value upon mathematics and the natural sciences and especially upon metaphysics. He rejects every unnecessary recourse to Divine or angelic ...
A humble man, John Duns Scotus has been one of the most influential Franciscans through the centuries. Born at Duns in the county of Berwick, Scotland, John was ...
Feb 28, 2024 · After studying theology for almost four years, John Duns was ordained a priest by Oliver Sutton, bishop of Lincoln (the diocese to which Oxford ...
Bl. John Duns Scotus was born in Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland, around 1265. He was immediately baptized after birth and was named after St. John the Evangelist.
Sep 15, 2019 · John Duns Scotus (b. c. 1265/1266–d. 1308) was one of the most significant Christian philosophers and theologians of the medieval period.