The Physics of Duns Scotus The Scientific Context of a Theological Vision

by Cross, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780198269748
• ISBN10: 0198269749
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-28
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

Duns Scotus, along with Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham, was one of the three most talented and influential of the medieval schoolmen, and a highly original and creative thinker. This book contains detailed discussion and analysis of Scotus's accounts of the nature of matter; the structure of material substance; mass; the nature of space, time, and motion; quantitative and qualitative change; and the various sorts of unity which can be exhibited by different kinds of whole.

Author Biography

Richard Cross is Tutorial Fellow in Theology, Oriel College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction: Physics and Duns Scotus	p. 1
Prime Matter	p. 13
Substantial Form	p. 34
The Plurality of Forms	p. 47
Composite Substance	p. 77
Accidents and Accidental Unity	p. 94
Quantity and Continuity	p. 116
The Metaphysics of Continuity	p. 139
Quantity: Change and Mass	p. 159
Quality: Unity, Degree, and Change	p. 171
Place and Space	p. 193
Motion, Time, and Continuity	p. 214
The Reality of Time	p. 239
Appendix: The Metaphysics of Generation and Corruption	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 264
Index Locorum	p. 279
General Index	p. 288
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