Questions on Aristotle’s Categories PDF
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THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH MEDIAEVAL CONTINUATION VOLUME 15 THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH MEDIAEVAL CONTINUATION EDITORIAL BOARD Gregory F. LaNave Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception Dominican House of Studies Editorial Director Regis J. Armstrong, O.F.M. Cap. Joseph Goering The Catholic University of America University of Toronto Peter Casarella Frank A. C. Mantello DePaul University The Catholic University of America John Cavadini Jan Ziolkowski University of Notre Dame Harvard University Trevor Lipscombe Director The Catholic University of America Press Carole Monica C. Burnett Staff Editor JOHN DUNS SCOTUS QUESTIONS ON ARISTOTLE’S CATEGORIES Translated by LLOYD A. NEWTON THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS Washington, D.C. Copyright © 2014 THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standards for Information Science—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI z39.48—1984. ∞ 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 viii CONTENTS 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. ix
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