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- The main difference between the two authors is that Scotus believes we can apply certain predicates univocally—with exactly the same meaning—to God and creatures, whereas Aquinas insists that this is impossible, and that we can only use analogical predication, in which a word as applied to God has a meaning different from, although related to, the meaning of that same word as applied to creatures.
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At the occasion of discussions about creation ex nihilo and sacraments, John Duns Scotus challenges Thomas Aquinas’s theory of instrumental causality. Whereas Aquinas does not strongly distinguish between artifacts and natural agents, and postulates a complex superposition of layers of causation, Scotus offers a novel view that clearly ...
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This paper examines Thomas Aquinas’ and John Duns Scotus’ respective views on the action-passion identity thesis. This thesis, which goes back to Aristotle, states that when an agent causes a change in a patient, then the agent’s causing of the change (action) is identical to the patient’s undergoing of said change (passion).
- Can Laurens Löwe
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Duns Scotus versus Thomas Aquinas on Instrumental Causality. Jean-Luc Solère. Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 7:147-185 ( 2019 ) Copy BIBTEX. Abstract. The medieval notion of instrumental cause is not limited to what we call today “instruments” or “tools.”
Dec 27, 2018 · This paper retraces some of the contrast between Aquinas and Scotus with respect to the metaphysical foundations of morality in order to highlight how subtle differences pertaining to the relationship between the divine will and the divine intellect can tip a thinker toward either an unalloyed natural law theory (NLT) or something that at least ...
