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Ockham and Political Discourse in the Late Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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Ockham and Political Discourse in the Late Middle Ages (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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The English Franciscan, William of Ockham (c. 1285???1347), was one
of the most influential philosophers and theologians in late
medieval Europe. Recent 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. Twentieth-century 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 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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