At the outer limits of authenticity: Denys the Carthusian’s critique of Duns Scotus and his followers
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At the outer limits of authenticity: Denys the Carthusian’s critique of Duns Scotus and his followers, in: Kent Emery Jr., Russell Friedman & Andreas Speer (eds.), Philosophy and theology in the long Middle Ages, Leiden, 2011, 641-672 (= Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 105)
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Duns Scotus JoannesAbstract:
This chapter outlines the large structure of an interpretation, the historical architecture of thought, as it were, which determined Denys' judgment of John Duns Scotus' place and significance within the discursive formation; of medieval Scholastic thinking. Denys was probably the most prolific writer of the entire Middle Ages; sixteenth-century bibliographers estimated that he wrote four times as much as St. Augustine. Influenced more by Henry of Ghent than by Thomas Aquinas, Denys conceives Scholastic theology as a purely speculative and deductive science, the evidence for which is yielded by a divine illumination that lies between faith and vision, and is in continuity with the light of the blessed. The very structure of Denys' threefold wisdom and its ultimate criterion of absolute divine simplicity suggest what kinds of serious problems he will discover in the teachings of John Duns Scotus.