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A mediaevalist trying to be a philosopher and a philosopher trying to be a mediaevalist write about theology, philosophy, scholarship, books, the middle ages, and especially the life, times, and thought of the Doctor Subtilis, the Blessed John Duns Scotus.

Monday, April 10, 2017

News

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1. There is a fairly new blog that treats the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition, in particular Scotus and Bonaventure, with some political c...

Duns Scotus, corruptor of...Art History?

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According to Ryan Haecker . What are we on now, third generation Radical Orthodoxy? In any case, at this point, I'm not sure why they...
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Friday, March 24, 2017

Varia

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I don't do much here but post news, and I haven't been able to login for months while I was living in Canada. Now I'm back for a...
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Thursday, June 2, 2016

A Fantasia on Philosophical Myth in Tarantino and Tolkien

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The psalmist says, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" (Ps. 111.10, Pr. 9.10), while Aristotle says that philosophy ...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Reportatio IV Now Available!

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There is a new Scotus publication from Franciscan Institute Publications ! Now we have a working text of Reportatio IV from Oleg Bychkov ...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

New Book on Baroque Scotism

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There is a new book on baroque Scotism about to hit the shelves . The author is Claus Andersen ( profile here ). The book is:  Metaphysi...
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Lagerlund on Cross

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Here is Henrik Lagerlund's review of Richard Cross' book on Scotus' theory of cognition. Lagerlund does not take issue with any...
Saturday, February 20, 2016

Umberto Eco: RIP

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See Hurtado's blog for some ruminations.
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Ashworth on Analogy

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Here : "Despite the vast modern literature devoted to Aquinas's theory of analogy, he has very little to say about analogy as su...
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Friday, February 19, 2016

Another Review of Brad Gregory

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Rather late in the game, a new review of Brad Gregory's Unintended Reformation has appeared, here , by Michael Horton. He is quite di...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

New Volume of the Scotus Opera omnia Released!

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Announced  here . Available for 215 euros, here . Note it is the first of two volumes of indices,  not texts. Here is the google-trans...
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Monday, February 15, 2016

New Grosseteste Edition

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An important new edition of Grosseteste has come out, his commentary on pseudo-Dionysius' De caelesti hierarchia. Available here . For a...
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Friday, February 12, 2016

Cross on Scotus on Faith and Reason

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From Richard Cross, "Fides et Ratio: The Harmony of Philosophy and Theology in Duns Scotus," Antonianum 83 (2008), 589-602. This...
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Thursday, January 28, 2016

Happy Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas!

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Happy Feast, unless  you prefer to celebrate on March 7. In the meantime, here are some fun quotes from Fides et Ratio : 49. The Church h...
Monday, November 9, 2015

O'Regan: Scotus the Nefarious

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The following is a quotation from an article in the Newman-Scotus Reader : Cyril O'Regan, "Scotus the Nefarious: Uncovering Genea...
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