
John Duns Scotus Demographics:
- Name - John Duns Scotus
- Other Names - Doctor Subtilis
- Born - ca 1266 (Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland)
- Died - ? December 8, 1308 (Cologne)
- Burial Place - Church of the Franciscans, Cologne.
- Occupation - Member of the Franciscan Order, philosopher & theologian.
- Little is known for certain of Scotus' life.
- Probably born ~1266; birthplace possibly at Duns, in Berwickshire, Scotland.
- Ordained as a priest in Northampton, England (1291).
- A Merton College (Oxford) note (Codex 66) documents that Scotus "flourished at Cambridge, Oxford and Paris."
- He was the mentor to William of Ockham.
- Lectured at the University of Paris in Autumn of 1302.
- Scotus was expelled from the University of Paris for siding with Pope Boniface VIII in his feud with Philip the Fair of France regarding the taxation of church property.
- He returned to the University of Paris in 1304 to continue lecturing.
- He later moved to the Franciscan studium at Cologne (? October 1307), where he died the next year.
- The Scotus sarcophagus (Church of the Franciscans, Cologne) bears the Latin inscription:
- Scotia me genuit. Anglia me suscepit. Gallia me docuit. Colonia me tenet.
- Translation. "Scotland brought me forth. England sustained me. France taught me. Cologne holds me."
- Founder of Scotism, a special form of Scholasticism.
- Known also as "Doctor Subtilis" on account of the subtle distinctions & nuances of his thinking.
- The term dunce (via Dunse) comes from descriptions, by detractors, of Duns Scotus and his followers - meaning incapable of scholarship.
- He had considerable influence over prevailing Roman Catholic thought.
- Duns Scotus believed that the truths of faith could not be comprehended through the use of reason.
- From this belief Duns Scotus considered that philosophy should not be a servant to theology, but act independently.
- Scotus developed a complex argument for the existence of God.
- He was also an adherent of, and argued for, the Immaculate conception of Mary.
- Only four works have been identified as authentic:
- Commentaries on Porphyry's Isagoge, on Aristotle's Categories, On Interpretation (in two different versions), and on Sophistical Refutations.
- These works are known as the parva logicalia.
- Historians date these works to around 1295, when he was working in Oxford.
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