Abstract
John Duns Scotus offers a double negation theory of why the singularized human nature assumed by Christ is not a human person. However, for reasons discussed in this study, Scotus’s double negation theory is unsatisfactory. To fill the lacuna in Scotus’s account of human personhood, I explore convergences between Martin Heidegger’s fundamental ontology of Dasein and Scotus’s metaphysics of essential order. Heidegger’s ontological analysis allows for a more satisfying explanation of a human person as a kind of intrinsic ‘nullity’ that can also be reconciled with Christian theology. I also consider how this Heideggerian development of Scotus’s Christology might be extended to divine persons, and I defend it from certain objections.
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