Dignitas et nobilitas metaphysicae: objeto y articulación de la metafísica en el prólogo del comentario de Duns Escoto a la metafísica de Aristóteles / Dignitas et nobilitas metaphysicae: Metaphysics’s Object and Articulation in Duns Scotus’s Prologue to His Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics

Abstract

This paper studies two aspects of John Duns Scotus’s Prologue to his Questions on the Metaphysics of Aristotle. The a priori argument to prove the nobility and dignity of metaphysics and the treatment of the question about the scientific object of metaphysics and its articulation with the other realities treated in this science. The paper also shows how Scotus’s prologue follows an interpretative tradition whose principal interlocutors are Thomas Aquinas and Avicenna