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Reconsiders John Duns Scotus's theory of the univocity of being in connection to his conception of ultimate difference. Develops a systematic account of ultimate difference from disparate discussions throughout his corpus.
List of contents
List of Abbreviation / ix
Introduction: Solomon's Difficulty / 1
Prologue, 1 ¿ To Cut Being at Its Joints, 1 ¿ The Inadequacy
of Thought and Language, 4 ¿ Vain Repetition and the Division
of Being, 8 ¿ On What Follows, 10 ¿ On Why It Matters, 13
Part I. Being and Ultimate Difference1. Being Is Said in Many Ways / 17
Univocity, Equivocity, Analogy, 17 ¿ Univocity of Being, 23 ¿
Aquinas and Henry on Analogy, 29 ¿ Why Univocity?, 33 ¿
Thales's Mistake, 38
2. The Real Concept of Being / 41
Real Concepts, 41 ¿ Transcendental Quid and Quale, 47 ¿
The Double Primacy of Being, 50 ¿ How Does Scotus Solve
the Problems of Univocity?, 53 ¿ Putting the World Back
Together Too Soon, 57
3. Ultimate Difference / 61
Ultimate Differences, 62 ¿ Extracategorial Difference, 67 ¿
Th e Real Basis of Ultimately Differential Concepts, 69 ¿
Th e Ground of Primary Diversity, 70 ¿
Termination of Quidditative Orders, 86
Part II. Regions of Ultimate Difference4. The First Cut-The Intrinsic Modes of Being / 93
Intrinsic Modes and the Modal Distinction, 93 ¿ The Intrinsic Modes
of Being, 95 ¿ Transcendental Magnitude, 98 ¿ Infinite and Finite
Magnitudes, 100 ¿ Nonadditive Intensity, 109
5. Ultimate Specific Differences / 120
The Formal Distinction, 120 ¿ Ultimate versus Nonultimate Specific
Differences, 124 ¿ Scotus's Innovation, 131 ¿ Real Community Prior to
the One and Many, 139 ¿ A Dust Cloud of Differences?, 145
6. Haecceitas, or Naked Singularity / 150
What Must Individuation Explain?, 151 ¿ Matter as the Principle
of Individuation, 153 ¿ What Else Is (Not) the Principle of
Individuation?, 157 ¿ Haecceitas as Ultimate Individual Difference,
165 ¿ The Threefold Comparison to Ultimate Specific Differences,
168 ¿ Bare Particularity versus Naked Singularity, 177
Conclusion: I Wouldn't Know Him from Adam / 181
The Intelligibility of Singulars, 182 ¿ Singular Volitions, 187 ¿
Postscript, 191
Acknowledgments / 193
Notes / 195
Bibliography / 249
Index / 263
About the author
Andrew LaZella is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Scranton. He received his PhD from DePaul University in 2010.
Summary
Reconsiders John Duns Scotus’s theory of the univocity of being in connection to his conception of ultimate difference. Develops a systematic account of ultimate difference from disparate discussions throughout his corpus.
