The Singular Voice of Being: John Duns Scotus and Ultimate Difference

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THE SINGULAR VOICE OF BEING
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CONTENTS
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Introduction: Solomon’s Difficulty
	Prologue
	To Cut Being at Its Joints
	The Inadequacy of Thought and Language
	Vain Repetition and the Division of Being
	On What Follows
	On Why It Matters
PART I. BEING AND ULTIMATE DIFFERENCE
	1. Being Is Said in Many Ways
		Univocity, Equivocity, Analogy
		Univocity of Being
		Aquinas and Henry on Analogy
		Why Univocity?
		Thales’s Mistake
	2. The Real Concept of Being
		Real Concepts
		Transcendental Quid and Quale
		The Double Primacy of Being
		How Does Scotus Solve the Problems of Univocity?
		Putting the World Back Together Too Soon
	3. Ultimate Difference
		Ultimate Differences
		Extracategorial Difference
		The Real Basis of Ultimately Differential Concepts
		The Ground of Primary Diversity
		Termination of Quidditative Orders
PART II. REGIONS OF ULTIMATE DIFFERENCE
	4. The First Cut—The Intrinsic Modes of Being
		Intrinsic Modes and the Modal Distinction
		The Intrinsic Modes of Being
		Transcendental Magnitude
		Infinite and Finite Magnitudes
		Nonadditive Intensity
	5. Ultimate Specific Differences
		The Formal Distinction
		Ultimate versus Nonultimate Specific Differences
		Scotus’s Innovation
		Real Community Prior to the One and Many
		A Dust Cloud of Differences?
	6. Haecceitas, or Naked Singularity
		What Must Individuation Explain?
		Matter as the Principle of Individuation
		What Else Is (Not) the Principle of Individuation?
		Haecceitas as Ultimate Individual Difference
		The Threefold Comparison to Ultimate Specific Differences
		Bare Particularity versus Naked Singularity
	Conclusion: I Wouldn’t Know Him from Adam
		The Intelligibility of Singulars
		Singular Volitions
		Postscript
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index