This paper examines the accounts of limit decision advanced by Hervaeus Natalis and Durand of St. Pourçain in their respective discussions of the sanctification of the Blessed Virgin. Hervaeus and Durand argue, against Aristotle, that the temporal limits of certain changes, including Mary’s sanctification, should be assigned in discrete rather than continuous time. The paper first considers Hervaeus’ discussion of limit decision and argues that, for Hervaeus, a solution of temporal limits in terms of discrete time can coexist with an Aristotelian continuous time solution because Hervaeus takes continuous and discrete time to be two non-intersecting, but correlated time-series. The paper next examines Durand’s account of limit decision and argues that Durand rejects Hervaeus’ correlation assumption as well as Aristotle’s continuous time solution.
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For this terminology, see J.E. Murdoch, “Propositional Analysis in Fourteenth-Century Natural Philosophy: A Case Study,” Synthese 40 (1979), 117-146, at 118.
For the dates, see Guimaraes, “Hervé Noël,” 48-49. P. Stella, “La prima critica di Hervaeus Natalis O.P. alla noetica di Enrico de Gand: Il De Intellectu et specie del cosidetto De quattuor materiis,” Salesianum 21 (1959), 125-175, at 135, proposed slightly later dates, but, as Olszewski shows, Hervaeus revised his commentary: M. Olszewski, Dominican Theology at the Crossroads: A Critical Edition and Study of the Prologues to the Commentaries on Peter Lombard’s Sentences by James of Metz and Hervaeus Natalis (Münster, 2010), 17.
There was also a second list devised in 1317. For an edition of both lists, see J. Koch, “Anhang: Die beiden gegen Durandus de S. Porciano gerichteten Irrtumslisten,” in idem, Kleine Schriften, vol. 2 (Rome, 1973), 52-118.
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This paper examines the accounts of limit decision advanced by Hervaeus Natalis and Durand of St. Pourçain in their respective discussions of the sanctification of the Blessed Virgin. Hervaeus and Durand argue, against Aristotle, that the temporal limits of certain changes, including Mary’s sanctification, should be assigned in discrete rather than continuous time. The paper first considers Hervaeus’ discussion of limit decision and argues that, for Hervaeus, a solution of temporal limits in terms of discrete time can coexist with an Aristotelian continuous time solution because Hervaeus takes continuous and discrete time to be two non-intersecting, but correlated time-series. The paper next examines Durand’s account of limit decision and argues that Durand rejects Hervaeus’ correlation assumption as well as Aristotle’s continuous time solution.
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Abstract Views | 272 | 41 | 8 |
Full Text Views | 158 | 4 | 1 |
PDF Views & Downloads | 45 | 7 | 2 |