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By Takashi Shogimen

The English Franciscan William of Ockham (c.1285–1347) used to be the most influential philosophers and theologians in past due medieval Europe. clean scholarship has proven his profound impression on good judgment, metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of language within the past due center a long time and past. Following a dispute among the papacy and his Order, Ockham deserted his educational occupation and committed himself to anti-papal polemics. students have produced divergent and infrequently contradictory interpretations of Ockham as a political philosopher: a damaging critic of the medieval Church, a medieval Catholic traditionalist, the Franciscan ideologue, and a constitutional liberal. This 2007 ebook bargains a clean reappraisal of Ockham's political concept through drawing close his anti-papal writings as a sequence of polemical responses. His competitive and chronic assault at the papacy emerges during this learn as an try and rescue the moral foundations of the Christian society from the political affects of heretical popes.

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