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Pierre Abélard 1079-1142
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ISBN: 2228890693 9782228890694 Year: 1997 Volume: 311 Publisher: Payot,

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La théologie d'Abélard
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ISBN: 220405514X 9782204055147 Year: 1997 Publisher: Paris : Les Editions du Cerf,

The philosophy of Peter Abelard
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ISBN: 0511582714 0511001908 9780511001901 0521553970 0521663997 9780521553971 9780521663991 9780511582714 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.

Abelard : a medieval life
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ISBN: 0631214445 0631205020 9780631205029 9780631214441 Year: 1997 Publisher: Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, USA Blackwell

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Because Abelard touched so many aspects of life, this book is structured naturally around the roles he played. The author describes in vivid and concrete terms what it meant in the twelfth century to be a famous scientist (the master of Latin, logic and philosophy), then a dedicated monk and pioneer of the discipline of theology - and yet one who was at various times a wandering scholar, courtier and jester. The author's many new findings include the discovery that it was Heloise who inspired many of Abelard's most profound ideas. She educated him: up to now historians have assumed it to be the other way round. (Blackwell)

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