DUNS SCOTO, Joannes; FANTIS, Antonio de, ed.

by Joannes; FANTIS, Antonio de, ed Duns Scoto

£3,750 · Offered by Sokol Books

.The charming binding is a north Italian production with the typical pink-stained leather sewing supports - showing influences from Bologna and mainland Veneto (e.g., Bib. Archiginnasio, 10.YY.V.29, Ms. B 3484 and, for the spine, 1.L.II.53), it was probably a university student s book, bound in Padua, where Scotus s theories had a great following. . .A very good, unsophisticated copy of this attractively produced edition of one of the most influential works of medieval philosophy. This is the last part of a four part work, often issued separately. Joannes Duns Scotus (1266-1308), Scottish philosopher, was one of the most influential in the early medieval period, together with Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham. He was trained at the Franciscan studium in Oxford. After taking holy orders, he moved to Paris where he was lecturing c.1300; he was expelled from France in 1302 for his support of Pope Boniface VIII against Philip IV. His very successful commentary on Peter Lombard s four books of Sententiae , a systematic compilation of theological sources, is considered his greatest work. This edition was overseen by the Italian theologian Antonio de Fantis (1460-1533). In this commentary, Duns Scotus s ground-breaking theories including the univocity of being (the concept of existence) and haecceicitas (the particularity of a thing as opposed to its abstract essence) are applied to broader questions left open by Peter Lombard. The work also discusses practical questions as varie

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