We may begin with this problem, which is both important in itself and connected with other issues.Ī nominal definition of Ockham's political work is easy to give: it consists of those treatises that have appeared or are to appear in the edition of his Opera Politica which will include nothing that he wrote at Oxford or Avignon and everything, with the exception of two logical treatises, that he is known to have written in his twenty years at Munich. Indeed, it has proved so hard to mark off the politically significant elements in Ockham's gigantic body of writings that some scholars have doubted he was a political thinker at all. This volume contains selections of Ockham’s philosophical writings which give a balanced introductory view of his work in logic, metaphysics, and ethics. If we restrict our attention to the content of Ockham's political writings and consider his life, his speculative thought, and the world around him only as they clarify the inner structure and meaning of these works, difficulties still remain in even outlining our subject, let alone providing a finished account. Ockham: Philosophical Writings William of Ockham Translated and Edited by Philotheus Boehner O.F.M. He was involved in a literary war with the popes at Avignon that rivaled in length and bitterness any previous contest between empire and papacy, yet he has also been described as ‘a constitutional liberal… not an anti-papal zealot’. Below is a selection of our recently published and forthcoming books. Publisher, University of Notre Dame Press, 1987 Original from, the University of Michigan Digitized, ISBN, 0268019401, 9780268019402 Length. He has been seen as the destroyer of the high scholastic synthesis of faith and reason, yet his personal orthodoxy has seldom been questioned in recent times, and the avowed target of his critical attacks was the ‘common opinion of the moderns’ rather than traditional theological systems. He is probably best known today for his espousal of metaphysical nominalism indeed, the methodological principle known as Ockham’s Razor is named after him. While Ockham was not allowed to publish his political treatises, they circulated. 12871347) is, along with Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus, among the most prominent figures in the history of philosophy during the High Middle Ages. Sooner or later he confronts every worker in late medieval history.’ Unfortunately, Ockham seems not only unavoidable but also enigmatic. William of Ockham, also known as William Ockham and William of Occam.
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