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Abelard in Four Dimensions: A Twelfth-Century Philosopher in His Context and Ours by John Marenbon, one of the leading scholars of medieval philosophy and a specialist on Abelard's thought, originated from a set of lectures in the distinguished Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies series and provides new interpretations of central areas of Peter Abelard's philosophy and its influence. The four dimensions of Abelard to which the title refers are that of the past (Abelard's predecessors), present (his works in context), future (the influence of his thinking up to the seventeenth century), and the present-day philosophical culture in which Abelard's works are still discussed and his arguments debated. For readers new to Abelard, this book provides an introduction to his life and works along with discussion of his central ideas in semantics, ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion. For specialists, the book contains new arguments about the authenticity and chronology of his logical work, fresh evidence about Abelard’s relations with Anselm and Hugh of St. Victor, a new understanding of how he combines the necessity of divine action with human freedom, and reinterpretations of important passages in which he discusses semantics and metaphysics. For all historians of philosophy, it sets out and illustrates a new methodological approach, which can be used for any thinker in any period and will help to overcome the divisions between "historians" based in philosophy departments and scholars with historical or philological training.

Petrus Abaelardus --- Philosophy --- Philosophers, Medieval --- Abelard, Peter, --- Abélard, Pierre, --- Critique et interprétation --- Abaelard, Peter, --- Abaelardi, Petri, --- Abaelardus, --- Abaelardus, Petrus, --- Abailard, Peter, --- Abailard, Pierre, --- Abailardus, Petrus, --- Abeilard, Pierre, --- Abélard, Pierre, --- Abelard, Piotr, --- Abelardo, --- Abelardo, Pietro, --- Abeli︠a︡r, Petr, --- Abelʹi︠a︡rd, Petr, --- אבעלאר, --- Abélard, Pierre --- Critique et interprétation. --- Philosophy - 12th century --- Philosophers, Medieval - Biography --- Abelard, Peter, - 1079-1142

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Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Peter Abelard (1079-1142) is one of the greatest philosophers of the medieval period. Although best known for his views about universals and his dramatic love affair with Heloise, he made a number of important contributions in metaphysics, logic, philosophy of language, mind and cognition, philosophical theology, ethics, and literature. The essays in this volume survey the entire range of Abelard's thought, and examine his overall achievement in its intellectual and historical context. They also trace Abelard's influence on later thought and his relevance to philosophical debates today.

Petrus Abaelardus --- Scholasticism --- Scolastique --- Abelard, Peter, --- Abaelard, Peter, --- Abaelardi, Petri, --- Abaelardus, --- Abaelardus, Petrus, --- Abailard, Peter, --- Abailard, Pierre, --- Abailardus, Petrus, --- Abeilard, Pierre, --- Abélard, Pierre, --- Abelard, Piotr, --- Abelardo, --- Abelardo, Pietro, --- Abeli︠a︡r, Petr, --- Abelʹi︠a︡rd, Petr, --- אבעלאר, --- Abelard, Peter, - 1079-1142.

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Abelard, Peter, --- Influence --- 2 PETRUS ABAELARDUS --- Godsdienst. Theologie--PETRUS ABAELARDUS --- 2 PETRUS ABAELARDUS Godsdienst. Theologie--PETRUS ABAELARDUS --- Abaelard, Peter, --- Abaelardi, Petri, --- Abaelardus, --- Abaelardus, Petrus, --- Abailard, Peter, --- Abailard, Pierre, --- Abailardus, Petrus, --- Abeilard, Pierre, --- Abélard, Pierre, --- Abelard, Piotr, --- Abelardo, --- Abelardo, Pietro, --- Abeli︠a︡r, Petr, --- Abelʹi︠a︡rd, Petr, --- אבעלאר, --- Influence. --- Abelard, Peter, - 1079-1142 - Congresses --- Abelard, Peter, - 1079-1142 - Influence --- Abelard, Peter, - 1079-1142

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This 1997 book offers a major reassessment of the philosophy of Peter Abelard (1079-1142) which argues that he was not, as usually presented, a predominantly critical thinker but a constructive one. By way of evidence the author offers analyses of frequently discussed topics in Abelard's philosophy, and examines other areas such as the nature of substances and accidents, cognition, the definition of 'good' and 'evil', virtues and merit, and practical ethics in detail. Part I discusses Abelard's life and works, and considers problems of chronology and canon (including the question of the authenticity of the correspondence with Heloise). Part II analyses Abelard's ontology, epistemology and semantics, showing how he tried to reconstruct the ideas he had learned from Aristotle, Porphyry and Boethius to fit his presumption that there is nothing which is not a particular. Part III analyses Abelard's ethical theory, showing that it is far wider and more sophisticated than has been believed.

Philosophy, Medieval. --- Medieval philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Abelard, Peter, --- Abaelard, Peter, --- Abaelardi, Petri, --- Abaelardus, --- Abaelardus, Petrus, --- Abailard, Peter, --- Abailard, Pierre, --- Abailardus, Petrus, --- Abeilard, Pierre, --- Abélard, Pierre, --- Abelard, Piotr, --- Abelardo, --- Abelardo, Pietro, --- Abeli︠a︡r, Petr, --- Abelʹi︠a︡rd, Petr, --- אבעלאר, --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Philosophie médiévale --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Critique et interprétation --- Philosophy [Medieval ] --- Abelard, Peter --- Abelard, Peter, - 1079-1142. --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilisation médiévale --- Philosophie médiévale. --- Philosophers --- Philosophes --- Civilisation médiévale --- Philosophie médiévale.

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The autobiographical and confessional writings of Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet were concerned with religious authenticity, spiritual sincerity and their opposite - fictio, a composite of hypocrisy and dissimulation, lying and irony. How and why moral identity could be feigned or falsified were seen as issues of primary importance, and Peter Godman here restores them to the prominence they once occupied in twelfth-century thought. This book is an account of the relationship between ethics and literature in the work of the most famous authors of the Latin Middle Ages. Combining conceptual analysis with close attention to style and form, it offers a major contribution to the history of the medieval conscience.

Christian moral theology --- Christian church history --- Petrus Abaelardus --- Heloise --- Conscience --- Christian ethics --- Conscience (Morale) --- Morale chrétienne --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Histoire --- Abelard, Peter, --- Héloïse, --- Conscience. --- Christliche Ethik --- Gewissen --- Fictionaliteit --- Integriteit --- Spiritualiteit --- Catholic Church. --- Abaelardus, Petrus --- Geschichte 500-1500. --- Ethics --- Guilt --- Superego --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Heloise, --- Abaelard, Peter, --- Abaelardi, Petri, --- Abaelardus, --- Abaelardus, Petrus, --- Abailard, Peter, --- Abailard, Pierre, --- Abailardus, Petrus, --- Abeilard, Pierre, --- Abélard, Pierre, --- Abelard, Piotr, --- Abelardo, --- Abelardo, Pietro, --- Abeli︠a︡r, Petr, --- Abelʹi︠a︡rd, Petr, --- אבעלאר, --- Christliche Ethik. --- Gewissen. --- Fictionaliteit. --- Integriteit. --- Spiritualiteit. --- Abaelardus, Petrus. --- Morale chrétienne --- Héloïse, --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Catholic Church --- Ėloiza, --- Eloisa, --- Heloísa, --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature