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0:00 - Why Care About Scotus? 10:28 - Aquinas vs. Scotus? 17:14 - Is God "Being Itself"? 27:36 - Scotus's 3 args for God's existence 46:57 - What is a Haecceity?? 1:02:54 - NFTs and Haecceities? 1:04:33 - What about Primordial Sin?
Scotus' "Treatise On God As First Principal" could be a "first read" for anybody. I found it easy and straight forward after you get past the Aristotle ... which is brief. But that beginning is convincing that JDS is precise and moves from one sure step to the next. I have known Catholics that fear Theology or discount their mental talent for working at it, but I think this is just a case of a shallow Will and in Scotus you have a Priest who is very efficient with his words. Today's fast pace of life and short attention span makes it imperative that effective teaching be presented in short assertions and suggestions which ring true immediately. At a mere 80 pages it is very digestible and will not exhaust your highlighter. A strictly intellectual tone can get tiresome fast, but in Scotus you have the Marian Mystic that suggests some intimacy of the motherly kind. Recommending Scotus, Ratzinger says "Freedom is situated in The Will" - Papal audience 7/7/10. I also recommend the Scotus movie. .... good video!
Where does one get these theologian and philosopher friends I feel like ever since I started taking these topics more seriously my friend list grows thinner and thinner lol
Question: is Scotus’ view of realism similar to David Lewis’ view? The notion that possibles are actual sounds like Lewis. Now, Lewis is not a theist, so there is obviously a difference. Maybe it’s a superficial connection, because Scotus would still distinguish between modal actuality and possibility, it’s just that possibility is a different sort of actuality in the mind of God. Question 2: Does the S5 modal system bear any closer relation to Scotus’ notion of necessity than to Aquinas’ view of necessity? As I understand it, under S5 logic, if something is possibly necessary, then it is necessary. I believe Planting’s ontological argument uses S5 logic. So, if Scotus’ thinks possibility necessarily exists, then is Scotus’ thinking a precursor to Plantinga’s form of the argument?
Putting these episodes together takes a lot of research and a ton of time. If you enjoy my high effort philosophy and theology podcast episodes, consider supporting me on Patreon:
www.patreon.com/parkers_pensees
St Maximus the confessor has a lot of ideas about us being ideas in Gods mind that I found very helpful.
0:00 - Why Care About Scotus?
10:28 - Aquinas vs. Scotus?
17:14 - Is God "Being Itself"?
27:36 - Scotus's 3 args for God's existence
46:57 - What is a Haecceity??
1:02:54 - NFTs and Haecceities?
1:04:33 - What about Primordial Sin?
Battle of the mustasches
Man Scotus is so underrated.
Totally!
I'm not surprised that an expert in Scotus dresses so well!
Great vid as usual, I was looking for some material on YT wrt Scotus but there was barely anything. This was really helpful
Scotus' "Treatise On God As First Principal" could be a "first read" for anybody. I found it easy and straight forward after you get past the Aristotle ... which is brief. But that beginning is convincing that JDS is precise and moves from one sure step to the next. I have known Catholics that fear Theology or discount their mental talent for working at it, but I think this is just a case of a shallow Will and in Scotus you have a Priest who is very efficient with his words. Today's fast pace of life and short attention span makes it imperative that effective teaching be presented in short assertions and suggestions which ring true immediately. At a mere 80 pages it is very digestible and will not exhaust your highlighter. A strictly intellectual tone can get tiresome fast, but in Scotus you have the Marian Mystic that suggests some intimacy of the motherly kind. Recommending Scotus, Ratzinger says "Freedom is situated in The Will" - Papal audience 7/7/10. I also recommend the Scotus movie. .... good video!
Where does one get these theologian and philosopher friends I feel like ever since I started taking these topics more seriously my friend list grows thinner and thinner lol
This was fascinating (as was the recent Tolkien episode)!
Parker, great episode! I talked about Scotus in a recent conversation I had with Zevi Slavin from Seekers of Unity. I think you would enjoy it.
I enjoy pausing this channel and looking up themeaning of the vocabulary used because it stretches my IQ.
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Creation is the perfect expression of God. That is different than creation is God.
Question: is Scotus’ view of realism similar to David Lewis’ view? The notion that possibles are actual sounds like Lewis. Now, Lewis is not a theist, so there is obviously a difference. Maybe it’s a superficial connection, because Scotus would still distinguish between modal actuality and possibility, it’s just that possibility is a different sort of actuality in the mind of God.
Question 2: Does the S5 modal system bear any closer relation to Scotus’ notion of necessity than to Aquinas’ view of necessity? As I understand it, under S5 logic, if something is possibly necessary, then it is necessary.
I believe Planting’s ontological argument uses S5 logic. So, if Scotus’ thinks possibility necessarily exists, then is Scotus’ thinking a precursor to Plantinga’s form of the argument?
Is haecceity the same thing as hypostasis?
Parker : where are you a grad student, what is your focus?