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In these questions, most never before published in English, medieval philosopher William of Ockham considers such topics as virtue, vice, intellect, will, love, hate, freedom, sin, and God’s relationship to…
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In these questions, most never before published in English, medieval philosopher William of Ockham considers such topics as virtue, vice, intellect, will, love, hate, freedom, sin, and God's relationship to…
Brian Duignan
The late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Age of Enlightenment produced a wealth of great thinkers whose ideas have endured through time. Beginning with William of Ockham, this volume…
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A new translation of a work by one of the outstanding thinkers of the later Middle Ages, William Ockham. Ockham's purpose in writing was to advocate for freedom of thought…
William Ockham
William of Ockham, the most prestigious philosopher of the fourteenth century, was a late Scholastic thinker who is regarded as the founder of Nominalism - the school of thought that…
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Arthur Stephen McGrade
The English Franciscan, William of Ockham (c. 1285-1349), was one of the most important thinkers of the later middle agesThis book provides a coherent account of Ockham’s aims and the…
Sheng-Chia Chang
By examining Ockham’s original writings and major contemporary scholarship, the author knits together the seemingly isolated topics to present a unified picture of a medieval mind which had made enormous…
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Oswald Fuchs
The facts concerning habit are a commonplace of our every-day existence. All our ordinary actions, like walking, eating, speaking, and the others, are attributable, in part at least, to acquired…
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Vesa Hirvonen
Providing an analysis of passions or emotions in William Ockham’s psychology, this study shows how Ockham diverged from the traditional opinion of emotions in arguing that there were emotions in…
Marilyn Adams
In this work Ockham proposes a simple theory of predication which he then uses in explicating the truth conditions of progressively more complicated kinds of propositions. It includes what he…
Jenny Pelletier
In William Ockham on Metaphysics, Jenny E. Pelletier gives an account of Ockham’s concept of metaphysics as the science of being and God as it emerges sporadically throughout his philosophical…
Herman 1922- Shapiro
William Bonnie Ockhame
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
The Song Of The Wedding Bells is a novel written by William Bonnie Ockhame in 1902. The book tells the story of a young couple, Mary and John, who fall…
Edward Sullivan
This volume presents an annotated translation of William of Ockham's treatise on the divine ideas, a key concept in medieval philosophy. Drawing on the Aristotelian notion of abstraction, Ockham argues…
THIS 56 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Arcane Schools, by John Yarker. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564593061.
Claude Panaccio
This book offers a history of the idea that human thought is structured like a language, from Plato and Aristotle up to the fourteenth century when William of Ockham gave…
William of Ockham
William of Ockham (c. 1285-c. 1387) was a Franciscan friar who came to believe that the Avignonese papacy of John XXII had set out to destroy the religious ideal on…
The Short Discourse is a passionate but compelling statement of Ockham’s position on the most fundamental political problem of the medieval period.
The defining critical text, Dialogus Part I, Book 6, of Ockham's masterpiece deals with the inquisition and punishment of a Pope betraying the fundamental principles of the Christian Commonwealth he…
Jonathan William Robinson
This book analyzes William of Ockham’s early theory of property rights alongside those of his fellow dissident Franciscans, paying careful attention to each friar’s use of Roman and civil law…
The book provides the first critical edition of the Dialogus written in Latin by William of Ockham in the 14th century. The dialogue is Ockham’s chief work on political philosophy…
William of Ockham Dialogus Part I, Book 7 completes Dialogus Book 1 and continues to utilize theological, legal, and logical arguments urging strong cooperation between all social groups and political…
More than any other single thinker, William of Ockham (c.1285-1347) is responsible for the widely held modern assumption that religious and secular-political institutions should operate independently of one another.The writings…
This is the first critical edition of the most important political text by William of Ockham, a significant and influential fourteenth century British philosopher.
JT Paasch (Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University)
This book examines the central ideas that defined the debate about divine production in the Trinity in the late 13th and early 14th centuries, namely those of Henry of Ghent…
Thomas M. Osborne Jr,Thomas Osborne
Sets out a thematic presentation of human action, especially as it relates to morality, in the works of Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham. Each chapter compares…
In his Dialogus William of Ockham (c. 1285 to 1347/8) turned from pure philosophy and theology to polemic, in the form of a dialogue between a student and a university…
Contains selections of Ockham’s philosophical writings which give a balanced introductory view of his work in logic, metaphysics, and ethics. This volume includes textual markings referring readers to appendices containing…
William Ockham,Alfred J. Freddoso,Henry Schuurman
In this work Ockham proposes a theory of simple predication, which he then uses in explicating the truth conditions of progressively more complicated kinds of propositions. His discussion includes what…
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Marilyn McCord Adams (Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
How can the Body and Blood of Christ, without ever leaving heaven, come to be really present on eucharistic altars where the bread and wine still seem to be? Marilyn…
William J. Courtenay
Against the background of changing assessments of Nominalism and its meanings before Ockham, this book examines the reception of Ockham’s thought at Oxford and Paris, the crisis over Ockhamism at…
Alan Michael Williams
Is one’s destiny determined by one’s sexuality? Micah doesn’t like how his Mormon faith pigeonholes his sexuality: that being gay is like being hooked on a drug. When he was…
William Barrett Burton
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (ABNA); Semi-Finalist! Dagney Hamilton, a pharmaceutical scientist, leads a team of researchers working to create a promising new drug therapy to stem the mounting tide of…
This is an English translation of the Quodlibetal Questions of William of Ockham, reflections on a variety of topics in logic, ontology, natural philosophy, philosophical psychology, moral theory and theology.
