A History of Western Philosophy

Compià ̈gne about 1050, and taught at Loches, in Brittany, where Abélard was his pupil. He was accused of heresy at a council a ...

to Paris in 1113, and acquired extraordinary popularity as a teacher. It was at this time that he became the lover of Héloà ̄se ...

says Saint John's Gospel, and this, he thought, proves the dignity of Logic. His chief importance is in logic and theory of know ...

Most of the learned men of the time were less devoted to dialectic than Abélard was. There was, especially in the School of Cha ...

primacy of Abel, the governance of Noah, the patriarchate of Abraham, the order of Melchizedek, the dignity of Aaron, the author ...

Catania (d. 1162) translated the Phaedo and Meno, but his translations had no immediate effect. Partial as was the knowledge of ...

outline of the events that did most to form the mental atmosphere of the age. The central figure at the beginning of the century ...

Montfort, father of the father of Parliament. He quarrelled with the Emperor Otto, and called upon the Germans to depose him. Th ...

he was witty. He was at home in Arabian philosophy, and had friendly relations with Mohammedans, which scandalized pious Christi ...

still more furious--one should fight the infidel, not negotiate with him. However, Frederick was duly crowned in Jerusalem, and ...

minister Pietro della Vigna was to take the place of Saint Peter. * He did not get so far as to make this project public, but wr ...

There was a wide-spread feeling, analogous to later puritanism, in favour of personal holiness; this was associated with a cult ...

It is interesting to trace the genealogy of these doctrines. They came to Italy and France, by way of the Crusaders, from a sect ...

was confiscated--in France, to the crown. When an accused person was found guilty, he was handed over to the secular arm with a ...

before the sultan, who received him courteously but remained a Mohammedan. On his return, he found that the Franciscans had buil ...

poverty as a means to this end. He was present throughout the Albigensian war, though he is said to have deplored some of its mo ...

ism, were in trouble with the university authorities, and were suspected of heretical sympathy with the Averroists, who had a po ...

Let us first consider what is meant by "wisdom." A man may be wise in some particular pursuit, such as making houses; this impli ...

the principles of demonstration became known to us through experience derived from the senses, as is said in the Posterior Analy ...

important.) In God, essence and existence are identical. There are no accidents in God. He cannot be specified by any substantia ...