Questions on Aristotle’s Categories

368 Pages·2014·1.82 MB·English

by  John Duns Scotus

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JOHN DUNS
SCOTUS
QUESTIONS ON ARISTOTLE’S
CATEGORIES
Translated by
LLOYD A. NEWTON
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS
Washington, D.C.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Duns Scotus, John, approximately 1266–1308.
[Quaestiones super libro Praedicamentorum Aristotelis. English]
Questions on Aristotle's Categories / John Duns Scotus ;
translated by Lloyd A. Newton.
pages cm.—(The Fathers of the Church mediaeval continuation ;
volume 15)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8132-2614-9 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Aristotle. Categoriae.
2. Categories (Philosophy) I. Title.
B438.D8613 2014
160--dc23 2013050040
I wish to dedicate this
work to my three children,
Holly, Alexander, and Maggie,
who mean the world to me.

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations and Sigla xi
Select Bibliography xiii
INTRODUCTION
Introduction 3
The Historical Reception of
Aristotle’s Categories 3
A Brief Analysis of Scotus’s
Questions on the Categories 27
QUESTIONS ON ARISTOTLE’S
CATEGORIES
Question One 41
Question Two 50
Question Three 58
Question Four 63
Question Five 83
Question Six 92
Question Seven 98
Question Eight 104
Question Nine 116
Question Ten 124
Question Eleven 133
Question Twelve 145
Question Thirteen 154
Question Fourteen 167
Question Fifteen 171
Questions Sixteen and Seventeen 178
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Questions Eighteen and Nineteen 189
Questions Twenty through Twenty-Three 193
Question Twenty-Four 201
Question Twenty-Five 208
Question Twenty-Six 224
Question Twenty-Seven 230
Question Twenty-Eight 237
Question Twenty-Nine 244
Questions Thirty through Thirty-Six 253
Questions Thirty-Seven and
Thirty-Eight 287
Question Thirty-Nine 304
Question Forty 311
Question Forty-One 314
Question Forty-Two 319
Question Forty-Three 324
Question Forty-Four 332
INdex
Index Nominum 341
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank Drs. William Frank, Philipp Rose-
mann, and Jorge J. E. Gracia for their support, guidance,
and encouragement as I worked my way through this dif-
ficult text. I would also like to thank Dr. Carole Burnett
for her editorial work and for correcting my Latin on oc-
casion. Needless to say, any translation mistakes or other
errors are entirely my own.
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