Medieval · c. 1266–1308
Who influenced Duns Scotus?
Influences and legacy
The Subtle Doctor who sharpened scholastic logic until it could cut itself free.
Duns Scotus was influenced by Henry of Ghent, Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas, and went on to influence William of Ockham and Charles Sanders Peirce. That is 5 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Duns Scotus?
John Duns Scotus, a Scottish Franciscan, is counted with Aquinas, Bonaventure and Ockham among the most important philosopher-theologians of the late Middle Ages. His sharp, subtle reasoning earned him the name Doctor Subtilis, and his school of thought is called Scotism.
He is best known for the univocity of being, the view that existence is the most abstract concept and applies to everything that exists; for the formal distinction; and for haecceity, the "thisness" that makes each thing an individual. He also built an argument for the existence of God and defended the Immaculate Conception. Pope John Paul II beatified him in 1993.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Duns Scotus?
3 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Henry of Ghent c. 1217–1293
- Bonaventure 1221–1274
- Thomas Aquinas 1225–1274
Who did Duns Scotus influence?
2 thinkers on this map draw directly on Duns Scotus.
- William of Ockham c. 1287–1347
- Charles Sanders Peirce 1839–1914
The line of teachers behind Duns Scotus
The longest documented line of influence ending at Duns Scotus runs 14 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Duns Scotus
Indirect influences
- Through Thomas Aquinas: Aristotle, Avicenna, Peter Abelard, Peter Lombard, Averroes, Maimonides, Albertus Magnus
- Through Bonaventure: Augustine of Hippo, Pseudo-Dionysius
The second generation
- Through Charles Sanders Peirce: William James, John Dewey
- Through William of Ockham: Jean Buridan
Contemporaries of Duns Scotus
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Duns Scotus, with no direct line between them.
- Meister Eckhart c. 1260–1328
- Dietrich von Freiberg c. 1250–1310
- Gersonides 1288–1344
Duns Scotus by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 3
- Direct followers
- 2
- Thinkers upstream
- 45
- Thinkers downstream
- 18
- Wikipedia languages
- 66 — #26 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Schools and lineages
Questions about Duns Scotus
- Who influenced Duns Scotus?
- Henry of Ghent, Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas.
- Who did Duns Scotus influence?
- William of Ockham and Charles Sanders Peirce.
- When did Duns Scotus live?
- c. 1266–1308. The map files Duns Scotus under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Duns Scotus card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Duns Scotus in 66 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
More medieval philosophers
- Augustine of Hippo AD 354–430
- Thomas Aquinas 1225–1274
- Avicenna 980–1037
- Ibn Khaldun 1332–1406
- Al-Ghazali c. 1058–1111
- Averroes 1126–1198
- Erasmus 1466–1536
- Hypatia c. 355–415