Description: The English Franciscan William of Ockham (c.1285-1347) was one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in late medieval Europe. Fresh scholarship has shown his profound impact on logic, metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of language in the late Middle Ages and beyond. Following a dispute between the papacy and his Order, Ockham abandoned his academic career and devoted himself to anti-papal polemics. Scholars have produced divergent and often contradictory interpretations of Ockham as a political thinker: a destructive critic of the medieval Church, a medieval Catholic traditionalist, the Franciscan ideologue, and a constitutional liberal. This 2007 book offers a fresh reappraisal of Ockham's political thought by approaching his anti-papal writings as a series of polemical responses. His aggressive and persistent attack on the papacy emerges in this study as an attempt to rescue the ethical foundations of the Christian society from the political influences of heretical popes.
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EAN: 9780521143981
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Book Title: Ockham and Political Discourse in the Late Middle
Number of Pages: 322 Pages
Publication Name: Ockham and Political Discourse in the Late Middle Ages
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: History & Surveys / Medieval, Political, Europe / General, Europe / Medieval
Publication Year: 2010
Item Weight: 16.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Takashi Shogimen
Subject Area: Philosophy, History
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
