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Könyv THE DECLARED AND THE MEASURED Boris Kriger

THE DECLARED AND THE MEASURED

DUNS SCOTUS AND THE DISTINCTIONS THAT MADE THE MODERN MIND

Szerző: Boris Kriger
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: Independently published
Elérhetőség: Várható készletfeltöltés
Küldés 15. 07. 2026
8 407 Ft
Seven hundred years ago, in a drafty lecture hall, a Franciscan whom everyone had written off as a s...

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Szerző
Boris Kriger
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2026
oldal
338
EAN
9798186784821
Enbook ID
53210637
Kiadó
Independently published
Súly
455
Méretek
152 x 229 x 18

Teljes leírás

Seven hundred years ago, in a drafty lecture hall, a Franciscan whom everyone had written off as a slow boy picked up the sharpest instrument the medieval mind ever forged and began cutting reality at joints no one else could see. John Duns Scotus lost the great argument of his age to the followers of Thomas Aquinas. Then he quietly won the seven centuries that followed.
This book is about the distinctions he made and why they still decide how we think. It follows one radical claim that holds the whole edifice together - that being is spoken in a single voice across everything that exists, from a speck of matter to the mind of God - and it traces that claim into three of the hardest questions a person can ask. What makes a single thing itself and nothing else? What happens to every conclusion built on a starting point we simply declared to be true? And does the will answer to reason, or reason to the will?
Along the way a surprising modern lesson emerges, one that reaches from a cathedral school straight into today's laboratories, newsrooms, and arguments about the universe: there is a permanent difference between what we measure and what we merely declare, and most of the confidence in the world lives on the wrong side of that line. Duns Scotus saw it first. He even gave us the law that explains why a false premise can prove anything at all.
Written without a single equation, in prose meant to be enjoyed rather than endured, this is the story of a medieval saint that turns out to be a story about you - about the part of you that no profile, no dossier, no complete description will ever capture, and why that stubborn remainder is not a gap in the record but the most solid thing about you.

Keywords: Duns Scotus, medieval philosophy, individuality, free will, scientific method, metaphysics, self-knowledge