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Duns Scotus on Disability: Teleology, Divine Willing, and Pure Nature

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According to the so-called “religio-ethical” model of disability accepted in some sense by Aquinas, disability is fundamentally a punishment for wrongdoing. Duns Scotus rejects this view and holds that disability… Click to show full abstract

According to the so-called “religio-ethical” model of disability accepted in some sense by Aquinas, disability is fundamentally a punishment for wrongdoing. Duns Scotus rejects this view and holds that disability could simply have been part of God’s plan, and that its presence could have been explained simply by virtue of God’s finding beauty in some of the bodily configurations of the disabled. I conclude by showing how Scotus’s view relates to the so-called “social” model of disability.

Keywords: duns scotus; scotus disability; teleology; disability; disability teleology; teleology divine

Journal Title: Theological Studies
Year Published: 2017

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