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He reconciled Aristotle with Christianity and wrote the most systematic theology ever attempted. Then he stopped, saying all he had written was straw.
The Subtle Doctor, who argued that being means the same of God and creatures, and that each thing has its own thisness.
Connection
Thomas Aquinas critic and successor Duns Scotus — Duns Scotus reacted against Aquinas, arguing that being must be said in one sense of God and creatures alike.
Ideas
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“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
“Being is said in one and the same sense of God and of creatures, or we could not speak of God at all.”
Key Moments
1245 CE
Studies in Paris and Cologne
1265 CE
Writes the Summa Theologica
December 1273 CE
The Mystical Experience
1274 CE
Dies on the Road
c. 1266 CE
Born in Scotland
c. 1300 CE
Thisness
c. 1302 CE
Lecturing at Paris
1308 CE
Death at Cologne
Works
Summa Theologica
Ordinatio