William of Ockham: A Short Discourse on Tyrannical Government
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William of Ockham (c. 1285-c. 1347) was the most eminent and influential theologian and philosopher of his day, a giant in the history of political thought. He was a Franciscan friar who came to believe that the Avignonese papacy of John XXII had set out to destroy the religious ideal on which the Franciscan order was based: the complete poverty of Christ and the apostles. This is the first complete text by Ockham to be published in English. The Short Discourse is a passionate but compelling show more statement of Ockham's position on the most fundamental political problem of the medieval period: the relationship of supreme spiritual authority, as represented by the pope, to the autonomous secular authority claimed by the medieval empire and the emerging nation-states of Europe. Professor McGrade's introduction, and the notes on the translation make the volume wholly accessible to a modern readership, while a full bibliography and chronology are included as further aids to the reader. show lessTags
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Ockham político. Su obra política es hoy objeto de
investigación y crítica con la misma intensidad que otras
épocas estudiaron su obra teológica. Ockham se ha
convertido en autor imprescindible para interpretar la
ciencia, la teología, la filosofía y la moral modernas. A lo
largo del siglo XX va surgiendo su perfil de político original
y valioso.
El punto de partida de Ockham son los hechos concretos,
personas con nombre propio, situaciones y con
ductas particulares de la sociedad medieval del siglo XIV
A ellos aplica una reflexión realizada desde la razón y la
fe. Su
Estamos asistiendo al descubrimiento del Guillermo de
Ockham político. Su obra política es hoy objeto de
investigación y crítica con la misma intensidad que otras
épocas estudiaron su obra teológica. Ockham se ha
convertido en autor imprescindible para interpretar la
ciencia, la teología, la filosofía y la moral modernas. A lo
largo del siglo XX va surgiendo su perfil de político original
y valioso.
El punto de partida de Ockham son los hechos concretos,
personas con nombre propio, situaciones y con
ductas particulares de la sociedad medieval del siglo XIV
A ellos aplica una reflexión realizada desde la razón y la
fe. Su
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William of Ockham was a Franciscan at Oxford. He came just short of receiving his theology degree; he was never able to undertake the necessary year of teaching because of the long list of those waiting and the opposition of his enemy, John Lutterel. From 1320 to 1324, he taught and wrote at the London Studium, the private school of his order. He show more was summoned to Avignon in 1324 on charges of heresy and became involved there in the dispute over Franciscan poverty. In 1328 Ockham fled with Michael of Cesena, general of his order, was excommunicated, and took refuge in Munich with Duke Ludwig of Bavaria, who had also been excommunicated. From there he engaged in an extensive polemic against Pope John XXII and his successors, writing numerous political works. Ockham's metaphysics and his logic are closely connected because of his deployment of "Ockham's razor," the notion that we should not suppose that more things exist than are needed to explain the meaning of true sentences. Very often his arguments hang on the logical analysis of a sentence, revealing its logical structure and making it clear that some questionable entity, something other than a word or an individual thing, is not referred to in it. His philosophy is marked by nominalism. He rejected the notion that we somehow or other get the forms of things themselves into our intellect, attacking especially Scotist attempts to hold on to this view using the "formal distinction." Instead, he held that our concepts were like mental words, with a natural capacity to signify their objects but in no way to be identified with their objects. This led to a strong skeptical current among his followers. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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