ESOTERICA | How One Idea Nearly Destroyed Medieval Philosophy & Dethroned God - Scotus on the Univocity of Being @TheEsotericaChannel | Uploaded 1 year ago | Updated 1 hour ago
How can finite human beings even speak about the Divine? For centuries, it was thought impossible for any human thought or language to accurately and really describe the divine. Only through negation and analogy could anything even dimly approach the nature of God....until the 13th philosopher Duns Scotus radically argued metaphysics can only be performed if concepts about the Being of God and Being in general were the same. Hence the name of this concept - the Univocity of Being, that the concept of Being as such must only have one Voice. This idea was so radical that Scotus was deemed a metaphysical idolater, even having dethroned God through pure ontology.

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Recommended Readings:

Duns Scotus - Philosophical Writings - 978-0872200180
Copleston - A History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Medieval Philosophy - From Augustine to Duns Scotus - 978-0385468442