The Singular Voice of Being John Duns Scotus and Ultimate Difference 1st Edition by Andrew Lazella 0823284573 9780823284573

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ISBN 10: 0823284573

ISBN 13: 9780823284573

Author: Andrew T. Lazella

The Singular Voice of Being reconsiders John Duns Scotus’s well-studied theory of the univocity of being in light of his less explored discussions of ultimate difference. Ultimate difference is a notion introduced by Aristotle and known by the Aristotelian tradition, but one that, this book argues, Scotus radically retrofits to buttress his doctrine of univocity. Scotus broadens ultimate difference to include not only specific differences, but also intrinsic modes of being (e.g., finite/infinite) and principles of individuation (i.e., haecceitates). Furthermore, he deepens it by divorcing it from anything with categorical classification, such as substantial form. Scotus uses his revamped notion of ultimate difference as a means of dividing being, despite the longstanding Parmenidean arguments against such division. The book highlights the unique role of difference in Scotus’s thought, which conceives of difference not as a fall from the perfect unity of being but rather as a perfective determination of an otherwise indifferent concept. The division of being culminates in individuation as the final degree of perfection, which constitutes indivisible (i.e., singular) degrees of being. This systematic study of ultimate difference opens new dimensions for understanding Scotus’s dense thought with respect to not only univocity, but also to individuation, cognition, and acts of the will.

The Singular Voice of Being John Duns Scotus and Ultimate Difference 1st Table of contents:

PART I. BEING AND ULTIMATE DIFFERENCE

1. Being Is Said in Many Ways

Univocity, Equivocity, Analogy

Univocity of Being

Aquinas and Henry on Analogy

Why Univocity?

Thales’s Mistake

2. The Real Concept of Being

Real Concepts

Transcendental Quid and Quale

The Double Primacy of Being

How Does Scotus Solve the Problems of Univocity?

Putting the World Back Together Too Soon

3. Ultimate Difference

Ultimate Differences

Extracategorial Difference

The Real Basis of Ultimately Differential Concepts

The Ground of Primary Diversity

Termination of Quidditative Orders

PART II. REGIONS OF ULTIMATE DIFFERENCE

4. The First Cut—The Intrinsic Modes of Being

Intrinsic Modes and the Modal Distinction

The Intrinsic Modes of Being

Transcendental Magnitude

Infinite and Finite Magnitudes

Nonadditive Intensity

5. Ultimate Specific Differences

The Formal Distinction

Ultimate versus Nonultimate Specific Differences

Scotus’s Innovation

Real Community Prior to the One and Many

A Dust Cloud of Differences?

6. Haecceitas, or Naked Singularity

What Must Individuation Explain?

Matter as the Principle of Individuation

What Else Is (Not) the Principle of Individuation?

Haecceitas as Ultimate Individual Difference

The Threefold Comparison to Ultimate Specific Differences

Bare Particularity versus Naked Singularity

Conclusion: I Wouldn’t Know Him from Adam

The Intelligibility of Singulars

Singular Volitions

Postscript

Acknowledgments

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