This translation of 34 selections of texts on the will and morality from writings by Duns Scotus - the early 14th-century Franciscan master - seeks to demonstrate the rational unity and consistency of Scotus' moral philosophy and its accessibility to human reason.

Long recognized as one of the greatest medieval philosophical theologians, John Duns Scotus made his most innovative theoretical contributions in the area of metaphysics. A careful and detailed study of his argument for the existence of God and the theory of knowledge that makes this possible provides the most direct access to his basic ideas. Unlike the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas or Anselm's famous Proslogion argument, Scotus's proof is of another order of complexity and amounts to a little summa of his metaphysics. Among those theologians to accept Aristotle's scientific theory, Scotus is...