LaZella / Klima The Singular Voice of Being

John Duns Scotus and Ultimate Difference
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8459-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies

Reconsiders John Duns Scotus’s theory of the univocity of being in connection to his conception of ultimate difference. Develops a systematic account of ultimate difference from disparate discussions throughout his corpus.

Autoren/Hrsg.

LaZella, Andrew T.

Klima, Gyula

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviation / ixIntroduction: Solomon’s Difficulty / 1
Prologue, 1 • To Cut Being at Its Joints, 1 • The Inadequacy
of Thought and Language, 4 • Vain Repetition and the Division
of Being, 8 • On What Follows, 10 • On Why It Matters, 13Part I. Being and Ultimate Difference1. Being Is Said in Many Ways / 17
Univocity, Equivocity, Analogy, 17 • Univocity of Being, 23 •
Aquinas and Henry on Analogy, 29 • Why Univocity?, 33 •
Thales’s Mistake, 382. The Real Concept of Being / 41
Real Concepts, 41 • Transcendental Quid and Quale, 47 •
The Double Primacy of Being, 50 • How Does Scotus Solve
the Problems of Univocity?, 53 • Putting the World Back
Together Too Soon, 573. Ultimate Difference / 61
Ultimate Differences, 62 • Extracategorial Difference, 67 •
Th e Real Basis of Ultimately Differential Concepts, 69 •
Th e Ground of Primary Diversity, 70 •
Termination of Quidditative Orders, 86Part II. Regions of Ultimate Difference4. The First Cut—The Intrinsic Modes of Being / 93
Intrinsic Modes and the Modal Distinction, 93 • The Intrinsic Modes
of Being, 95 • Transcendental Magnitude, 98 • Infinite and Finite
Magnitudes, 100 • Nonadditive Intensity, 1095. Ultimate Specific Differences / 120
The Formal Distinction, 120 • Ultimate versus Nonultimate Specific
Differences, 124 • Scotus’s Innovation, 131 • Real Community Prior to
the One and Many, 139 • A Dust Cloud of Differences?, 1456. Haecceitas, or Naked Singularity / 150
What Must Individuation Explain?, 151 • Matter as the Principle
of Individuation, 153 • What Else Is (Not) the Principle of
Individuation?, 157 • Haecceitas as Ultimate Individual Difference,
165 • The Threefold Comparison to Ultimate Specific Differences,
168 • Bare Particularity versus Naked Singularity, 177Conclusion: I Wouldn’t Know Him from Adam / 181
The Intelligibility of Singulars, 182 • Singular Volitions, 187 •
Postscript, 191Acknowledgments / 193Notes / 195Bibliography / 249Index / 263

Über Autor(innen)

LaZella Andrew T.:
Andrew LaZella is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Scranton. He received his PhD from DePaul University in 2010.Klima Gyula:
Gyula Klima is professor of philosophy at Fordham University, Doctor of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences, director of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, and
editor of the society’s proceedings. Among his books is John Buridan (2008).Andrew LaZella is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Scranton. He received his PhD from DePaul University in 2010.