CONTINGENZA E ONTOLOGIA DELLA LIBERTÀ NEL “TRACTATUS DE PRIMO PRINCIPIO” DI GIOVANNI DUNS SCOTO

This article proceeds through analysis of contingency in Duns Scotus, in which there are present both the causal temporality of “necessitas per accidens” and the notion of “instants of nature” and “logical possibility”. In the indeterminist tradition opposed to theological fatalism, it goes on from Severinus Boëthius’s commentary on De Int. IX all the way to modernity, under the name of compatibilism. In Scotus, in his “Tractatus De Primo Principio”, particularly in Chapter IV, such compatibilism, at an ontological and metaphysical level, concerns the joint working of intellect and will, which cooperate in building up a theological and epistemological model, in which there is not “repugnantia” but rather compossibility between Divine omniscience and human freedom.