Duns Scotus, John
Duns Scotus, John
(c.1270-1308) Founder and leader of the Scotist School of philosophy, died Cologne, Germany . It is not known whether he was of Irish or Scottish origin or whether Duns was a family or a place name. He became a Franciscan , c.1290, taught at Oxford, and distinguished himself for his learning at the universities of Paris and Cologne. Of his numerous works the principal is his commentary on the “Sentences” of Peter Lombard, from which nearly his whole system of philosophy, in which the genuine spirit of scholasticism is pronounced, can be derived. His chief followers were among the Franciscans . He was called “Doctor subtilis.”
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Duns Scotus, John
(1266/74-1308) Doctor Subtilis, was born somewhere in the British Isles, studied at the Franciscan monastery at Dumfries and at Oxford before 1290. He studied at Pans for four years, then taught theology at Oxford from 1300-1302, at Pans from 1302-1303, when he was banished for his opposition to King Philip IV. He received his doctorate at Paris in 1305 and went to Cologne in 1307, where he died. He is the most distinguished medieval defender of the view that universals which have “haeccity” (q.v.) as well as quiddity. His realism was adopted by Charles Peirce (q.v.) works
De Primo Principio,
Quaestionis in Metaphysicam,
Opus Oxoniense,
Reportata Parisiensia (Opera Omnia, Paris, 1891-5).
— V.J.B.