[1]: 4 He was expelled from Paris as a papal supporter, in the dispute with Philip IV of France.
[1]: 5 He came across the younger Duns Scotus and supported him, appointing him regent master of the Franciscans there in 1304.
[1]: 2, 5 The origin of Gonsalvus's dispute with Eckhart has to do with the relative superiority of the will to that of the intellect in knowing God.
Eckhart believed that the intellect was superior to the will in this regard since through it, God can be known without any of the human qualities with which the will invests its image of him.
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