Scientia propter quid nobis - the epistemic independence of metaphysics and theology in the "Quaestio de cognitione Dei" attributed to Duns Scotus - Wouter Goris

KORTE INHOUD

"This study is part of a larger project on the primacy of adequacy in the philosophical thought of Duns Scotus. It offers, together with a critical edition, the first attempt at an overall interpretation of the Quaestio de cognitione Dei attributed to Duns Scotus - a text famous for its enhancement of Scotuss conception of metaphysics with the systematic distinction between metaphysics as a science in itself and for us. In line with the theory of science in the Lectura Parisiensis, in which Duns Scotus casts theology as a strictly demonstrative science in the present state (a scientia propter quid nobis), the Quaestio de cognitione Dei is seen to demand that the same be allowed for metaphysics as well - its conception of metaphysics as a scientia in se distinct from theology hence critically amends Scotuss conception of metaphysics. This criticism not only shows that the Quaestio de cognitione Dei is wrongly attributed to Duns Scotus and is rather to be situated in the innerfranciscan debate on his Parisian t...
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2022Uitgever: Aschendorff Verlag296 paginasISBN-10: 340210329XISBN-13: 9783402103296

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