This work is the first English translation of Scotus's commentary on Aristotle's Quaestiones super Praedicamenta. Although there are numerous Latin commentaries on Aristotle's Categories, Scotus's Questions is one of the few commentaries on the Categories written in the thirteenth century covering a
Questions on Aristotle's Categories
β Scribed by John Duns Scotus
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 368
- Series
- The Fathers of the Church: Mediaeval Continuation; 15
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This work is the first English translation of Scotus's commentary on Aristotle's Quaestiones super Praedicamenta. Although there are numerous Latin commentaries on Aristotle's Categories, Scotus's Questions is one of the few commentaries on the Categories written in the thirteenth century covering all of Aristotle's text, including the often neglected post-praedicamenta, and the only complete Latin commentary available in English. Moreover, unlike many of the commentaries, Scotus's text is one of the last commentaries to be written before the nominalist reduction of the categories to substance and quality. The question format allows Scotus a great deal of liberty to discuss the categories in detail, as well as matters that are only remotely raised by the text. Altogether, the forty-four questions cover the following subjects: questions 1β4 are prolegomena to the work itself and raise the question of its subject matter as well as whether there can be a science of the categories; questions 5β8 deal with equivocals, univocals, and denominatives; questions 9β11 discuss Aristotle's two rules regarding predication and the sufficiency of the categories; questions 12β36 discuss the four main categories treated by Aristotle, namely, substance, quantity, relation, and quality; and the remaining eight questions discuss the post- praedicamenta.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Sigla
Select Bibliography
Introduction
The Historical Reception of Aristotle's Categories
A Brief Analysis of Scotus's Questions on the Categories
Question One
Question Two
Question Three
Question Four
Question Five
Question Six
Question Seven
Question Eight
Question Nine
Question Ten
Question Eleven
Question Twelve
Question Thirteen
Question Fourteen
Question Fifteen
Questions Sixteen and Seventeen
Questions Eighteen and Nineteen
Questions Twenty through Twenty-Three
Question Twenty-Four
Question Twenty-Five
Question Twenty-Six
Question Twenty-Seven
Question Twenty-Eight
Question Twenty-Nine
Questions Thirty through Thirty-Six
Questions Thirty-Seven through Thirty-Eight
Question Thirty-Nine
Question Forty
Question Forty-One
Question Forty-Two
Question Forty-Three
Question Forty-Four
Index Nominum
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