The Presence of Duns Scotus in the Thought of Edith Stein: by Francesco Alfieri

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This booklet examines the phenomenological anthropology of Edith Stein. It in particular specializes in the query which Stein addressed in her paintings Finite and everlasting Being: what's the foundational precept that makes the person precise and unrepeatable in the human species? conventional analyses of Edith Stein’s writings have tended to border her perspectives in this factor as being prompted through Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, whereas neglecting her curiosity within the lesser-known determine of Duns Scotus. but, as this e-book exhibits, with reference to the query of individuality, Stein used to be serious of Aquinas’ procedure, discovering that of Duns Scotus to be extra convincing. as a way to get to the guts of Stein’s readings of Duns Scotus, this booklet appears at her released writings and her own correspondence, as well as accomplishing a meticulous research of the unique codexes on which her assets have been dependent. Written with diligence and aptitude, the e-book severely evaluates the authenticity of Stein’s resources and exhibits how the location of Scotus himself advanced. It highlights the originality of Stein’s contribution, which used to be to rediscover the relevance of Mediaeval scholastic inspiration and reinterpret it within the language of the Phenomenological tuition based by way of Edmund Husserl.

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The rest of the codex (fols. 85ra-145vb) contains anonymous quaestiones: [6] De Deo et productione rerum, de essentia et existentia (fols. 85ra-92vb), all written by the same hand; [9] De numeris, tempore et instanti (fols. 93ra-129rb), written by someone else, which correspond word-for-word to codex Is fols. 63va101rb. Lastly the codex ends with 28 quaestiones (fols. 130ra-145vb), the first two of which (130ra-132rb) correspond to the two quaestiones finales (fols. 102ra103vb) of codex Is. 2 Authenticity and Dating of the Quaestiones disputatae de rerum principio The study of codices T and V, examined in all their parts, has enabled medievalists to definitively identify the author of the pseudo-epigraph attributed by Wadding to Doctor Subtilis, entitled Quaestiones disputatae de rerum principio, and to establish, by means of a careful examination of the content of each quaestio, its terminus a quo and terminus ad quem.

63: “Item, ponatur quod idem corpus sit Romae et Parisius, Parisius in furno, Romae in Tiberi; ergo simul erit calidum et frigidum, et sic calidum et non calidum, et per consequens contradictio. […] et in uno loco occiditur et in alio nutritur, et sic vivit et non vivit”. The name derives from the name of the place, or from a baker’s oven built in the past for his family. V. (1927); Vitalis de Furno (1947), pp. , von (1955), pp. 53–57; Lynch J. (1972); d’Onofrio G. ) (1996), pp. 53–55. 93 Godefroy de Paris (1950), pp.

The text is presented in two columns; it was written by more than one person. Fols. Ir-v, 40v-44v, 84v, 129v, 146r-v are blank, although fols. 41v and 42v-44v have traces of writing in graphite pencil. 44 See Fig. 3. See Fig. 3. 46 The figure in square brackets gives the total number of quaestiones for each group. 47 For a more detailed treatment of Wadding’s approach to the authenticity of De rerum principio, the reader is referred to Scaramuzzi D. (1930), pp. 392–393. 48 For a description of this codex see Bierbaum M.

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