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The Ordinatio of John Duns Scotus
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Ordinatio. Book 4. Distinctions 14 - 42.
Book Four. Distinctions 14 - 42
Fifteenth Distinction
Question Four. Whether he who Causes Someone a Loss in the Good of Reputation is Bound so to Make Restitution that he Cannot be Truly Penitent unless he Restore his Reputation
II. To the Initial Arguments

II. To the Initial Arguments

270. To the first argument [n.248] the answer is plain from the third article [n.261].

271. To the second [n.249], if the argument is about him who has, without preservation of the order of right, been accused in public and denied it, I concede that he is not bound to restore reputation to the accuser; rather the accuser is imputing his own infamy to himself, because he acted impudently and unjustly by making a private accusation in public.

272. But if this argument is being made about a lying accuser of the innocent who cannot return reputation to the accused unless he defame himself, the response is plain from the first article of the question [nn.256-257], that, after such a public lie, he is not deserving of reputation; but the other is deserving, and therefore his reputation should be given back to him.