caa a22 4500 469039485 CHVBK 20180323132807.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00774419 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00774419 Dumont Stephen Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada aut Transcendental being: Scotus and Scotists [Elektronische Daten] [Stephen Dumont] Of singular importance to the medieval theory of transcendentals was the position of John Duns Scotus that there could be a concept of being univocally common, not only to substance and accidents, but even to God and creatures. Scotus's doctrine of univocal transcendental concepts violated the accepted view that, owing to its generality, no transcendental notion could be univocal. The major difficulty facing Scotus's doctrine of univocity was to explain how a real, as opposed to a purely logical, concept could be abstracted from what agreed in nothing real, in this case, God and creatures. The present article examines Scotus's solution to this difficulty and its interpretation in four of his noted fourteenth-century followers. It is shown that the balance Scotus's solution achieved between the competing demands of the real diversity between God and creatures, on the one side, and the conceptual unity of transcendental being, on the other, is taken in opposed directions by his interpreters. Either the real diversity of God and creatures is given priority, so that the concept of being becomes a purely logical notion, or the real unity of the concept of being is stressed, so that some sort of real community is posited between God and creatures. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Topoi Springer Netherlands 11/2(1992-09-01), 135-148 0167-7411 11:2<135 1992 11 11245 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00774419 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00774419 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dumont Stephen Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Topoi Springer Netherlands 11/2(1992-09-01), 135-148 0167-7411 11:2<135 1992 11 11245 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer