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The Early Mediaeval Scottish philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus shook traditional doctrines of logical universality and logical particularity by arguing for a metaphysics of ‘formal distinction’. Why did the Nineteenth Century poet and self-styled philosopher Gerard Manley Hopkins find this revolutionary teaching so appealing? John Llewelyn answers this question by casting light on various neologisms introduced by Hopkins and reveals how Hopkins endorses Scotus’s claim that being and existence are grounded in doing and willing. Drawing on modern respon ses to Scotus made by Heidegg ... More
Keywords: formal distinction, logic, metaphysics, being, existence, doing, willing
Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9781474408943 |
Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: May 2017 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474408943.001.0001 |
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