A Complete Course Of Philosophy According To The Mind Of Scotus - Physics, Volume II - Bartolomeo Mastri

This second volume of Mastri’s Complete Course of Philosophy turns from logic to natural philosophy (physics), presenting the study of the physical world according to the principles of the Scotist tradition rooted in John Duns Scotus.

The work examines nature as a structured order of mobile and material beings, focusing on the principles that underlie physical change and composition. Topics typically include motion, the nature of matter and form, causality, continuity, and the general properties of bodies. Mastri approaches these questions with the characteristic Scotist attention to formal distinctions and precise conceptual analysis, while still engaging the Aristotelian framework common to scholastic natural philosophy.

This volume aims to provide a rigorous account of the physical sciences as understood in the scholastic tradition, showing how natural phenomena can be explained through metaphysical principles. It functions as a bridge between foundational logic and the more abstract inquiries of metaphysics that follow in the series.