The Univocity of Being: with special reference to the doctrines of John Duns Scotus and Martin Heidegger. (original) (raw)

Summary: my thesis engaged Aristotle, Duns Scotus and Heidegger in a debate over the concept of being and critically engaged with Heidegger’s philosophy of art in relation to history. I engaged Husserl and Heidegger in a debate over the nature of phenomenology and examined Heidegger’s phenomenology of religion in relation to historical manifestations of religious practice. I argued that Heidegger’s temporal configuration of being as meaningful presence amounts to a univocal conception of being in terms of time. I then related this interpretation to Heidegger’s later philosophy. Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow, 2006.