Incomunicability in medieval debate: Richard of Saint Victor, Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus

Abstract

The paper aims to outline a historical line from the Greco-Roman definition of person to the notion of incommunicability (incomunicabilitas existentia). Within the context of medieval Latin thought, Richard of St. Victor, Thomas Aquinas, and Duns Scotus developed an alternative approach to the definition of person, proposed by Boethius, focused on the concept of substance.