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Article: Heidegger and Duns Scotus on truth and language.
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- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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IT IS SHOCKING THAT IN THE VOLUMINOUS SECONDARY LITERATURE that surrounds Heidegger's relationship to the Middle Ages, or the well-trodden field of "Heidegger and Theology," so few acknowledge the essential relationship between Heidegger's notion of truth and Duns Scotus's revisionary Aristotelianism. Heidegger's debt to the late thirteenth-century doctor subtilis manifests itself on the opening page of Being and Time. Heidegger asks, not about being, but about the meaning of being, that is, to what essence (logos) does the word "being" refer. (1) Further on Heidegger writes: "higher than actuality stands possibility." (2) For Scotus (by distinction from Thomas Aquinas), ...
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