RE-SITUATING SCOTIST THOUGHT |
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| Authors: | MARY BETH INGHAM |
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| Affiliation: | Philosophy Department, Loyola Marymount University, One, LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045, USA |
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| Abstract: | In Duns Scotus: His Historical and Contemporary Significance, Catherine Pickstock presents several levels of a critique against Scotist thought. My response focuses upon the assumptions that ground her critique. In sum, I think that Pickstock's argument errs on two counts. While her contemporary critique may be better lodged upon the interpreters and not the Franciscan himself, her much more elaborated critique of Scotus is not well founded. I conclude my essay with a few comments about the danger of historical categories such as voluntarism or intellectualism for any authentic retrieval of a medieval thinker. |
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