{"id":32813,"date":"2015-11-08T16:19:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T20:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32813"},"modified":"2015-11-08T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T17:51:00","slug":"blessed-john-scotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/11\/blessed-john-scotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed John Scotus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Scotus-plate-of-beatification.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32814 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Scotus-plate-of-beatification-251x300.png\" alt=\"Scotus plate of beatification\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Scotus-plate-of-beatification-251x300.png 251w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Scotus-plate-of-beatification.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a>Blessed John Duns Scotus is liturgically remembered today but because it is Sunday his memorial is skipped this year. Sad really. As you know, Blessed John was\u00a0born in Scotland in 1266, studied and taught in London and Paris and spent the end of his life in Cologne having died in 1308. His sarcophagus in the Minoritenkirche.\u00a0At\u00a0Scotus\u2019s sarcophagus is the plate showing us that he was declared to be \u201cblessed\u201d when John Paul II visited Cologne.<\/p>\n<p>Blessed John is widely known as the\u00a0high point of medieval philosophy.\u00a0Martin Heideggers did his second doctorate \u00a0to teach in the university (the \u201cHabilitationsschrift\u201d), on a topic from the philosophy of John Duns Scotus. The modern era of philosophy\u00a0is credited for being full of errors, especially\u00a0for the errors of modernity (the univocity of being). Blessed John seems to be at the heart of the controversy.<\/p>\n<p>Philosophically, I remember Scotus for two things: 1.) his exposition on the Blessed Virgin Mary and 2.)\u00a0<em>haecceitas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was his work, the year before his death, on the Virgin Mary that led the Church under Pope Pius IX to define the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.<\/p>\n<p>On this second point develops a theory of\u00a0<em>haecceitas<\/em>, or this-ness &#8211;the metaphysical cause of individual being. <em>Haecceitas<\/em>\u00a0speaks to\u00a0what makes this rhubarb (or cat or dog or human being) different from that other plant\u00a0(or car or dog or human being). This metaphysical cause was picked up by Jesuit Father Gerard Manly Hopkins in his poetry.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, Blessed John&#8217;s philosophy is not what he&#8217;s liturgically remembered for, it is his holiness of life. Let us pray that Blessed John Duns Scotus mediates for us before the Throne of Grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blessed John Duns Scotus is liturgically remembered today but because it is Sunday his memorial is skipped this year. Sad really. As you know, Blessed John was\u00a0born in Scotland in 1266, studied and taught in London and Paris and spent the end of his life in Cologne having died in 1308. His sarcophagus in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/11\/blessed-john-scotus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blessed John Scotus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1940,1770],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32817,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32813\/revisions\/32817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}