Duns Poems - Poems about Duns

those who deny that some being is contingent should be exposed to torments until they concede that it is possible for them not to be tormented "John Duns Scotus" In reading about this man, I found an intellectual spirit whereas it is far better to know, than...

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"Engraved on his tomb in Latin: Scotland brought me forth. England sustained me. France taught me. Cologne holds me." Blessed John Duns Scotus 1265 - 1308 _______________ Blessed theologian, philosopher, logician, realist, professor entered the Franciscan order at 12 years old became a catholic priest and Franciscan friar received a good education at Oxford known for his metaphysical arguments on God and his univocity of being and so much...

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A great philosopher was someone who I read about. He was a Scottish priest. Before today I never even knew a thing about this guy now long deceased. Philosophy is sometimes hard for me to comprehend, and John Duns Scotus taught ideas that I don’t grasp easily. His “univocity of being” thought is too abstract for me, but it seems great. However, “dunce” was...

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Thinker, scholar, sophist; Duns was, yet, a humanist, His thoughts actions exhibited him as true philanthropist…! Constructing a metaphysical argument, he said, Of the existence of God, that like rivers moves ahead…! Aristotle or Aquinas need not be great masters, When divine decree, like creation, does all things alters...! A Franciscan priest and theologian, he explained, The Immaculate Conception, with due...

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John Duns Scotus was a fortunate man Beliefs such, could have been burnt at the stake Luckily he got away with elan Urging fellow souls to rise and awake His life a mystery, as also death There are rumours he was buried alive Was he in meditation or took meth Be it what it may, his teachings survive God’s choiceless choice to...

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Duns Scotus was an enormously important theologian He significantly influenced Catholic theology, early on, A brilliant man of considerable influence in Scotland Doctrines we take for granted were from him drawn. A thirteenth century Franciscan, he was very erudite Strange the idea of the dunce cap comes from his name Though never pictured wearing a pointy-head funnel His scholarship and philosophy contribute...

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