John Duns Scotus · Theology

The Univocity of Being: One Word That Reaches God

Scotus&rsquo;s foundational claim that <em>being</em> (ens) is said in one and the same sense of God and creatures - not merely by analogy - because otherwise no concept we form could ever reach across to God at all. It is the ground of his natural theology.

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You learned that Scotus, against Aquinas&rsquo;s analogy of being, held that being is predicated univocally (in one sense) of God and creatures, and that his test for a univocal concept is that its unity suffices for a contradiction. Explain why he thought only univocity secures our ability to think and speak about Go…

Leads to Thomas Aquinas.

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