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Article: Duns Scotus, John
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Duns Scotus, John
(
b
. Roxburghshire, Scotland,
ca
. 1266;
d
. Cologne, Germany, November 1308)
philosophy
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Little is known of the life of John Duns Scotus, who was among the outstanding thinkers of the later Middle Ages. He entered the Franciscan order probably in 1279 or 1280 and was ordained in 1291. He studied first at Oxford University and then at Paris University, returning to Oxford in 1300 to complete the requirement for his doctorate. Before he could take his degree, however, he was once again sent by his superiors to Paris, where he finally became a doctor of theology in 1305, having been temporarily banished from France in 1303, together with about seventy other friars, for ...