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Analogous Unity in the Writings of John Duns Scotus

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D'ettore, Domenic. Analogous Unity In the Writings of John Duns Scotus. Johns Hopkins University Press . 2022. mushare.marian.edu/concern/generic_works/085e03c7-b517-427c-ad4d-54e57176287a?locale=de.

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D. Domenic. (2022). Analogous Unity in the Writings of John Duns Scotus. https://mushare.marian.edu/concern/generic_works/085e03c7-b517-427c-ad4d-54e57176287a?locale=de

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D'ettore, Domenic. Analogous Unity In the Writings of John Duns Scotus. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2022. https://mushare.marian.edu/concern/generic_works/085e03c7-b517-427c-ad4d-54e57176287a?locale=de.

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Aristotle identifies four modes of unity: numerical, specific, generic, and proportional or analogous. Recent scholarship has renewed the Renaissance and early Modern Thomist critique that John Duns Scotus's (d. 1308) doctrine of the univocity of being is based on a failure to appreciate proportional unity. This paper attempts to fill a gap in the copious literature on Scotus's doctrine of the univocity of being by presenting and offering an analysis of the texts where Scotus addresses the topic of proportional or analogous unity. The paper argues that Scotus's early and mature works consistently reject the notion that an analogous or proportional unity can serve as the foundation for greater than equivocal unity between concepts, and that Scotus's developed position represents an alternative to Aristotle's division of unity into the modes of numerical, specific, generic, and analogous. Nonetheless, Scotus's early remarks on an analogous unity that is mind-independent provide both an internal justification for the dispute that ensues between Thomists and Scotists over whether a single concept can signify analogously—a dispute that features such distinguished participants as Thomas de Vio Cajetan (1469–1534) and Bartolomaeus Mastrius (1602–73)—and an avenue for further investigation into the thought of the Subtle Doctor.

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  • Journal of the History of Philosophy (Vol.60, no.4)

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