Title: Contingent causality and the foundations of Duns Scotus' metaphysics
First published: 1996
Description: This study challenges the current view that the originality of Duns Scotus' notion of contingent causality lies in modal logic. It works as an ontological concept, and so provides a point of entry into the foundations of Duns Scotus' metaphysics.

As one of two basic manifestations of the active causal power of being, it points to Scotus' underlying ontology, which can no longer be seen as a failure to attain Aquinas' clarity. We have a positive alternative, capable of generating the characteristic Scotist theses: univocity of being, formal distinction, haecceitas, proof of God's existence from possibility, the producibility of God's ideas.
Subjects: Medieval Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Medieval, Duns scotus, john, approximately 1266-1308
People: John Duns Scotus (ca. 1266-1308)
LC classification: B765.D74 S85 1996