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Thomas Williams presents the most extensive collection of John Duns Scotus's work on ethics and moral psychology available in English. This accessible and philosophically informed translation includes extended discussions on divine and human freedom, the moral attributes of God, and the relationship between will and intellect.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Topical guide to the translations
- 1: Questions on Aristotle's Metaphysics IX, q. 15
- 2: Ordinatio prologue, part 5, qq. 1 and 2 (omitting nn. 270-313)
- 3: Ordinatio I, d. 1, part 1, q. 1
- 4: Ordinatio I, d. 1, part 2, q. 1, nn. 65-73
- 5: Ordinatio I, d. 1, part 2, q. 2 (omitting nn. 100-133)
- 6: Ordinatio I, d. 8, part 2, q. un., nn. 223-225, 269-274, 281-301
- 7: Ordinatio I, d. 17, part 1, qq. 1-2, nn. 55-67, 92-100
- 8: Ordinatio I, d. 38, q. un.
- 9: Reportatio IA, dd. 39-40, qq. 1-3, nn. 24-59
- 10: Ordinatio I, d. 44, q. un.
- 11: Ordinatio I, d. 47, q. un.
- 12: Ordinatio I, d. 48, q. un.
- 13: Ordinatio II, d. 6, q. 1
- 14: Ordinatio II, d. 6, q. 2
- 15: Ordinatio II, d. 7, q. un., nn. 28-39
- 16: Ordinatio II, dd. 34-37, q. 2
- 17: Ordinatio II, d. 38, q. un.
- 18: Ordinatio II, d. 39, qq. 1-2
- 19: Ordinatio II, d. 40, q. un.
- 20: Ordinatio II, d. 41, q. un.
- 21: Ordinatio II, d. 42, q. un.
- 22: Ordinatio II, d. 43, q. un.
- 23: Ordinatio II, d. 44, q. un.
- 24: Ordinatio III, d. 17, q. un
- 25: Ordinatio III, d. 27, q. un.
- 26: Ordinatio III, d. 28, q. un.
- 27: Ordinatio III, d. 29, q. un.
- 28: Ordinatio III, d. 32, q. un. (omitting nn. 12-18)
- 29: Ordinatio III, d. 33, q. un.
- 30: Ordinatio III, d. 34, q. un., nn. 1-5, 24-38, 45-83
- 31: Ordinatio III, d. 36, q. un.
- 32: Ordinatio III, d. 37, q. un.
- 33: Ordinatio III, d. 38, q. un.
- 34: Ordinatio IV, d. 15, q. 2, nn. 78-101
- 35: Ordinatio IV, d. 17, q. un., nn. 1-2, 17-33
- 36: Ordinatio IV, d. 21, q. 2
- 37: Ordinatio IV, d. 26, q. un., nn. 12-31
- 38: Ordinatio IV, d. 29, q. un., nn. 11-28
- 39: Ordinatio IV, d. 33, q. 1
- 40: Ordinatio IV, d. 33, q. 3
- 41: Ordinatio IV, d. 46, qq. 1-3
- 42: Quodlibetal Questions q. 18
About the author
Thomas Williams is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He is co-author of Anselm (Oxford, 2009) and Thomas Aquinas: Treatise on Happiness and Treatise on Human Acts (Hackett, 2016), editor of The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus (Cambridge, 2003) and Thomas Aquinas: Disputed Questions on the Virtues (Cambridge, 2005), co-editor of Philosophy in the Middle Ages, 3rd ed. (Hackett, 2010), and translator of Augustine's On Free Choice of the Will (Hackett, 1993) and Anselm: Basic Writings (Hackett, 2007).
Summary
Thomas Williams presents the most extensive collection of John Duns Scotus's work on ethics and moral psychology available in English. This accessible and philosophically informed translation includes extended discussions on divine and human freedom, the moral attributes of God, and the relationship between will and intellect.
Additional text
This superb collection of translated texts will do a great deal to make the ethical thought of Duns Scotus familiar to a new generation of Anglophone scholars.
