Jean Duns Scot: Le Principe d'Individuation (Bibliothèque Des Textes Philosophiques)

by John Duns Scotus

Cherchant a prouver qu'il peut exister une pluralite d'anges dans une meme espece angelique, Duns Scot se demande ce qui fait d'un individu celui qui est. Ce faisant, il demontre en metaphysicien une verite que les sciences du concret n'ont cesse de confirmer, a savoir qu'il n'est rien chez un individu qui ne soit individue. Rien n'explique la singularite, hormis la cause positive de l'hecceite, par quoi toute nature commune est individuee en derniere instance. Or, si l'individualite n'est pas communicable, les natures le l'individu prime sur l'espece, mais l'individualisme ne se soutient pas. La presente reedition corrigee donne le texte latin en regard de la traduction.

256 pages, Perfect Paperback

Published June 7, 2005

About the author

John Duns, commonly called Duns Scotus (c. 1266 – 1308), is generally considered to be one of the three most important philosopher-theologians of the High Middle Ages. Scotus has had considerable influence on both Catholic and secular thought. The doctrines for which he is best known are the "univocity of being," that existence is the most abstract concept we have, applicable to everything that exists; the formal distinction, a way of distinguishing between different aspects of the same thing; and the idea of haecceity, the property supposed to be in each individual thing that makes it an individual. Scotus also developed a complex argument for the existence of God, and argued for the Immaculate Conception of Mary.

Duns Scotus was given the scholastic accolade Doctor Subtilis (Subtle Doctor) for his penetrating and subtle manner of thought. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1993.