El concepto de persona en Duns Escoto

Abstract

This work focuses on the person as an original reality from the perspective of Duns Scotus, who follows Richard of St. Victor’s line of though. He understands the person, in an attempt to go beyond Boethius´s naturalistic vision, not departing from the idea of substance but from the notion of existence. Scotus takes St. Victor’s definition and makes it richer by distinguishing it from the notion of individuality –constituted by haecceitas– and also from nature. That is to say, although nature is a reality suppositum per se to the person, the latter is not according to its nature. Indeed, if we focus on the human person, a man is not a person because he is a man –according to the Subtle Doctor– but because on the person’s own quo: this man is a person because he is a person, for the supossitalitas, which in turn will drive him to inquire about the originating relationship. All in all, Scotus’s perspective analyzes the notion of person from three different perspectives: the “absolute event that happens”, the “absolute independence” and the “incommunicable existence”.