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The natural theology of Nicholas Bonetus
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- This contribution investigates the first treatise on natural theology intended as such by its author. Nicholas Bonetus is the author of this treatise. The article examines Bonetus' life, works, and commitment to Scotism before surveying Duns Scotus' views on natural theology. Scotus is shown to have been optimistic regarding whether some doctrines now regarded to be strictly theological, such as the Trinity, can be proven by pure reason. Bonetus followed in Scotus' footsteps. The article surveys Bonetus' fundamental ideas on the nature of natural theology.
- It is shown that he organized the science along the lines of an Aristotelian science, with the result that natural theology has a subject, and attributes that are demonstrated of the subject. The subject according to Bonetus is the first immoveable mover, and the science demonstrates various attributes of God, such as divine intellect and will, from which Bonetus derives the Trinitarian processions. Following the article is an appendix containing descriptions of the manuscripts, where it is shown that the majority do name the text theologia naturalis. [Publisher's text].
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ISSN: 1972-5558
KEYWORDS
- Nicholas Bonetus, Scotism, metaphysics, Franciscus de Mayronis, Theologia naturalis, Duns Scotus
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In this issue
- Radical natural theologies from Duns Scotus to Christian Wolff : introduction
- La teologia naturale, Duns Scoto e la deduzione a priori della Trinità
- The natural theology of Nicholas Bonetus
- La Puissance et son nombre, d'Abélard à Kepler
- Même la Trinité : Descartes, Pascal et Saint-ÂÂAnge
- Prouver sans démontrer : Malebranche et la Trinité
- Usages et fonctions du concept de cité de Dieu dans la première philosophie de Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Diversa Theologiae naturalis systemata : Christian Wolff's Ways to God.
- Involution and the convergence of minds : the philosophical stakes of Lalande's vocabulaire
- Patrizia Pozzi
- Recensioni
- Indice dell'annata 2021