Duns Scotus
Medieval Franciscan philosopher
Duns Scotus was a medieval Scottish philosopher and theologian (c. 1266–1308), a Franciscan friar whose subtle arguments earned him the title "Doctor Subtilis." His followers, called Dunsmen or Dunces, were later mocked by Renaissance humanists as hair-splitting opponents of new learning—giving English the word dunce.
- voluntarismWill-based action philosophy
- philosopherStudent of fundamental questions
- theologianExpert in religious doctrine
- AristotleGreek founder of formal logic
- universalsProperties holding across all
individuation · metaphysics · scholasticism · Plato · Immanuel Kant · ontology · being · will · Franciscan · medieval · subtle · doctor · intellect · thisness · existence · categories · distinction · friar
- British ThinkersBertrand Russell, John Locke, David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Francis Bacon
- Christian ScholarsAugustine, Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas, Jerome, Athanasius
- Medieval FiguresGenghis Khan, Joan of Arc, Marco Polo, William the Conqueror, Dante
- medieval learningmedieval universities, trivium, scholasticism, liberal arts, monastery
- philosophersAristotle, Plato, Socrates, Kant, Descartes
- Scottish ThinkersAdam Smith, David Hume, John Stuart Mill
scholastic theological-philosophical rivalry
Duns ScotusThomas Aquinas
Scholastic philosopher-theologian