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The Singular Voice of Being : John Duns Scotus and Ultimate Difference /
Reconsiders John Duns Scotus's theory of the univocity of being in connection to his conception of ultimate difference. Develops a systematic account of ultimate difference from disparate discussions throughout his corpus.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press,
2019.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; THE SINGULAR VOICE OF BEING; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Abbreviation; Introduction: Solomon's Difficulty; Prologue; To Cut Being at Its Joints; The Inadequacy of Thought and Language; Vain Repetition and the Division of Being; On What Follows; On Why It Matters; PART I. BEING AND ULTIMATE DIFFERENCE; 1. Being Is Said in Many Ways; Univocity, Equivocity, Analogy; Univocity of Being; Aquinas and Henry on Analogy; Why Univocity?; Thales's Mistake; 2. The Real Concept of Being; Real Concepts; Transcendental Quid and Quale; The Double Primacy of Being
- How Does Scotus Solve the Problems of Univocity?Putting the World Back Together Too Soon; 3. Ultimate Difference; Ultimate Differences; Extracategorial Difference; The Real Basis of Ultimately Differential Concepts; The Ground of Primary Diversity; Termination of Quidditative Orders; PART II. REGIONS OF ULTIMATE DIFFERENCE; 4. The First Cut-The Intrinsic Modes of Being; Intrinsic Modes and the Modal Distinction; The Intrinsic Modes of Being; Transcendental Magnitude; Infinite and Finite Magnitudes; Nonadditive Intensity; 5. Ultimate Specific Differences; The Formal Distinction
- Ultimate versus Nonultimate Specific DifferencesScotus's Innovation; Real Community Prior to the One and Many; A Dust Cloud of Differences?; 6. Haecceitas, or Naked Singularity; What Must Individuation Explain?; Matter as the Principle of Individuation; What Else Is (Not) the Principle of Individuation?; Haecceitas as Ultimate Individual Difference; The Threefold Comparison to Ultimate Specific Differences; Bare Particularity versus Naked Singularity; Conclusion: I Wouldn't Know Him from Adam; The Intelligibility of Singulars; Singular Volitions; Postscript; Acknowledgments; Notes