tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post7405858397937605528..comments2024-03-11T04:11:06.487-04:00Comments on The Smithy: The Cambridge ThesesLee Faberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00476833516234522602noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post-85656906385547626442013-05-30T19:28:08.507-04:002013-05-30T19:28:08.507-04:00Elsewhere on this site someone said that the RO at...Elsewhere on this site someone said that the RO attitude to Scotus was politically-motivated. Based on my own research on RO, I'd agree entirely. Scotus wrote defending a Christian theory of popular sovereignty, contrary to Giles of Rome and John of Paris. Alexander Broadie thinks his ideas lent themselves to the Declaration of Arbroath by the Scots against the English. As a British Franciscan, Scotus would have been aware of the Magna Carta, which sought to make the monarch accountable to the people's representatives and the rule of law. The Franciscans may indeed have been supportive of the nascent English Parliament. <br /><br />It's also important to recall that it was the Dominicans who were implicated in the origins of the Inquisition, and allowed to use torture by the papal bull of 1252, before Scotus was even born, but during Thomas Aquinas' lifetime. All that makes complete nonsense of the RO thesis that Scotist univocity was to blame for a supposed development of an 'ontology of violence' in 'modernity'. <br />The tactics used against Scotus by some of these fashionable pomo academics are intellectually dishonest and border on inquisitorial - putting Scotus in a double bind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post-42742381549567655612009-04-14T14:21:00.000-04:002009-04-14T14:21:00.000-04:00The funny thing is that the thinking behind "negat...The funny thing is that the thinking behind "negationes in summe non amamus" is about as far as nihilism as one can get.<br /><br />All right, I'm going to turn off the computer and finish packing now.Michael Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11191322302191384384noreply@blogger.com