Duns Scotus
Scottish Franciscan friar and philosopher (c. 1265/66–1308)
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Medieval theologian whose ideas about free will and individual choice shaped Christian philosophy for centuries. Duns Scotus argued harder than his peers—particularly against Aquinas—and influenced everyone from Franciscans to later Protestant thinkers.
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John Duns Scotus was a Scottish Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, university professor, philosopher and theologian. He is considered among the most important philosopher-theologians in Western Christendom during the last part of the medieval period, together with Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure and William of Ockham.
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