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Word: scotus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also head of the institute of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto and was formerly on the staff at Harvard. He is noted the world over as an authority on medieval thought. The first two lectures will consider "the Social Function of Theology" and the third, "Duns Scotus and Heidegger's Phenomenology." Duns Scotus was leader of the movement opposing Thomas Aquinas, the great Catholic philosopher of the middle ages, while Heidegger ranks high among the thinkers of present day fanciat Germany. Only the first two lectures will be open to the general public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Noted French Philosopher To Give Three Talks Here | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...announcement listed 14 instructors, most of them young. With Port Royal's opening set for Nov. 1, Dr. Hill and his associates busied themselves last week getting ready to receive such students as might come to them as impecunious medieval youths did to Anselm, to John Duns Scotus, to Abélard in the rural oratory he called Paraclete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College for the Broke | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

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