Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Spell of John Duns Scotus
View through CrossRef
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 Heidegger, Peirce, Arendt, Leibniz, Hume, Reid, Derrida and Deleuze, Llewelyn’s own response shows by way of bonus why it would be a pity to suppose that the rewards of reading Scotus and Hopkins are available only to those who share their theological presuppositions
Title: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Spell of John Duns Scotus
Description:
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 Heidegger, Peirce, Arendt, Leibniz, Hume, Reid, Derrida and Deleuze, Llewelyn’s own response shows by way of bonus why it would be a pity to suppose that the rewards of reading Scotus and Hopkins are available only to those who share their theological presuppositions.
Related Results
Tümeller Sorunu'nun Uğrağı - Duns Scotus
Tümeller Sorunu'nun Uğrağı - Duns Scotus
Duns Scotus'un evrenseller konusundaki görüşü nominalist yaklaşıma yakın olsa da, tam anlamıyla nominalizm olarak sınıflandırılamaz. Onun görüşleri, "bağımsız gerçeklik" (realism) ...
Idee divine secondo Francesco di Appignano
Idee divine secondo Francesco di Appignano
Christopher D. Schabel ha editato e studiato la distinzione 39 del primo libro sentenziario di Francesco di Appignano, sia nella forma dell’ Ordinatio , che presenta una mutilazion...
Hopkins’ Double Discovery, of Scotus and of Himself
Hopkins’ Double Discovery, of Scotus and of Himself
‘However, this is me, not you’ writes Hopkins gnomically in his response to a letter from Robert Bridges that makes an unsuccessful attempt to persuade his friend to read Hegel. It...
Ecceity, Ipseity and Existents
Ecceity, Ipseity and Existents
Although Scotus sometimes seems to teach the opposite, he argues, like his compatriot David Hume will, that existence is really the same as essence. This is a doctrine that makes i...
Peirce’s Post-Kantian Categories
Peirce’s Post-Kantian Categories
In Peirce’s terminology to be actualised means to exist. Existence falls within the category of Secondness which is intermediate between the purely qualitative presence of Firstnes...
Um novo caminho do conhecimento filosófico de Deus: Henrique de Gand, Mestre Eckhart, Duns Scotus
Um novo caminho do conhecimento filosófico de Deus: Henrique de Gand, Mestre Eckhart, Duns Scotus
Na história da recepção e interpretação da metafísica ou da “Filosofia Primeira” segundo Aristóteles, a contribuição de autores como Tomás de Aquino e João Duns Scotus hoje em dia ...
Seeming, Observing and Observance
Seeming, Observing and Observance
Literature is a treasury of likenesses and unlikenesses. Much is to be learned about the various ways ‘like’ and ‘as’ function from a comparison of how the kestrel is ‘worded’ by H...