"Dia do bheatha" on YouTube https://youtu.be/nzkmgd28yYw

This #Christmas carol is attributed to Aodh Mac Aingil (1571-1626), a theologian and philosopher who worked in the #IrishColleges in Leuvan and Rome, most importantly on the philosophy of #DunsScotus. A proficient poet, he may have studied first at a bardic school.
https://arrow.tudublin.ie/aaconmusaud/8/

For a more detailed bio see #DIB https://www.dib.ie/biography/mac-cathmhaoil-mac-aingil-aodh-maccaghwell-hugh-cavellus-hugo-a5115

#IrishChristmas #IrishPhilosophy #IrishFranciscans

Dia do bheatha" on YouTube https://youtu.be/nzkmgd28yYw

This #Christmas carol is attributed to Aodh Mac Aingil (1571-1626), a theologian and philosopher who worked in the Irish Colleges in Leuvan and Rome, most importantly on the philosophy of #DunsScotus. A proficient poet, he may have studied first at a bardic school.
https://arrow.tudublin.ie/aaconmusaud/8/

For a more detailed bio see #DIB https://www.dib.ie/biography/mac-cathmhaoil-mac-aingil-aodh-maccaghwell-hugh-cavellus-hugo-a5115

#IrishFranciscans #IrishCollege #IrishChristmas

#IrishFranciscans worked on the philosophy of John #DunsScotus due to him being a Franciscan AND due to the mistaken belief that he hailed from Co. Down in Ireland.

They fiercely defended his Irishness, including against Thomas Dempster, a writer who claimed everyone from Boudicca to John Scottus Eriugena as Scottish.

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/09/18/scottish-debate-17th-century/

#IrishPhilosophy

#AodhMacAingil on the tradition #DunsScotus was Irish

"I can recall also practically from my infancy the tradition regarding that disputation which Scotus held in the Parisian schools...at which a certain Doctor, to who Scotus was known up to that point only by reputation, and who admired the profundity of his doctrine and the subtlety of his arguments, exclaimed […] 'You are,' he said, 'one of three things: an angel from heaven, a devil from hell or Scotus from Down.'"
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/12/08/pious-opinion/

> Duns Scotus, the lonely defender of the primacy of the Will over the Intellect and.. the factor of contingency in everything.. Duns Scotus.. to be recognized not only as “the most important thinker of the Christian #MiddleAges” but perhaps also as the unique one who did not seek a compromise between the #Christian #faith and Greek #philosophy, and who dared, therefore, to make it a badge of true “Christians [to say] that God acts contingently.”
#HannahArendt #DunsScotus
#LifeOfTheMind

> Yet ah! this air I gather and I release
He lived on; these weeds and waters, these walls are what
He haunted who of all men most sways my spirits to peace;
Of realty the rarest-veinèd unraveller; a not
Rivalled insight, be rival Italy or Greece;
...
#GerardManleyHopkins on #DunsScotus in #Oxford #Philosophy #Christianity #Poetry