Ockham and political discourse in the late Middle Ages
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Ockham and political discourse in the late Middle Ages
（Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought / edited by G.G. Coulton, 4th ser）
Cambridge University Press, 2010
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"First published 2007, first paperback printing 2010"--T.p. verso
Appendix in Latin
Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-288) and index
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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.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The poverty controversy
- 2. A general theory of heresy
- 3. The problem of papal heresy
- 4. Papal plenitudo potestatis
- 5. Petrine primacy
- 6. The defence of human freedom
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index.
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