The Philosophy of Peter Abelard

by John Marenbon
The Philosophy of Peter Abelard
Author: John Marenbon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521663991
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This book offers a major reassessment of the philosophy of Peter Abelard (1079-1142) which shows that he was a far more constructive and wider-ranging thinker than has usually been supposed. It combines detailed historical discussion, based on published and manuscript sources, with philosophical analysis which aims to make clear Abelard's central arguments about the nature of things, language and the mind, and about morality. Although the book concentrates on these philosophical questions, it places them within their theological and wider intellectual context.

The Philosophy of Peter Abelard

by John Marenbon
The Philosophy of Peter Abelard
Author: John Marenbon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 1997-02-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521553971
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This book offers a major reassessment of the philosophy of Peter Abelard (1079-1142), which shows that he was a far more constructive and wider-ranging thinker than has usually been supposed. It combines detailed historical discussion, based on published and manuscript sources, with philosophical analysis that aims to make clear Abelard's central arguments about the nature of things, language and the mind, and about morality. Although the book concentrates on these philosophical questions, it places them within their theological and wider intellectual context.

The Cambridge Companion to Abelard

by Jeffrey E. Brower
The Cambridge Companion to Abelard
Author: Jeffrey E. Brower
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2004-03-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139826301
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Peter Abelard (1079–1142) is one of the greatest philosophers of the medieval period. Although best known for his views about universals and his dramatic love affair with Heloise, he made a number of important contributions in metaphysics, logic, philosophy of language, mind and cognition, philosophical theology, ethics, and literature. The essays in this volume survey the entire range of Abelard's thought, and examine his overall achievement in its intellectual and historical context. They also trace Abelard's influence on later thought and his relevance to philosophical debates today.

Abelard in Four Dimensions

by John Marenbon
Abelard in Four Dimensions
Author: John Marenbon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2022-01-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780268204013
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Abelard in Four Dimensions provides new interpretations of central areas of Peter Abelard's philosophy and its influence.

Historia Calamitatum

by Peter Abelard
Historia Calamitatum
Author: Peter Abelard
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1922
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:
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The Historia Calamitatum (A history of my calamities) is an autobiographical work by Peter Abelard, one of medieval France's most important intellectuals and a pioneer of scholastic philosophy. It is written in the form of a letter and highly influenced by Augustine of Hippo's Confessions. Peter Abelard was a pioneer of philosophy and university alike. The Historia Calimatatum provides readers with knowledge of his views of women, learning, monastic, life, Church and State combined, and the social milieu of the time.

Possibility and Necessity in the Time of Peter Abelard

by Irene Binini
Possibility and Necessity in the Time of Peter Abelard
Author: Irene Binini
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2021-10-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004470468
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This book offers a major reassessment of Abelard’s modal logic and theory of modalities, and provides a comprehensive study of the 12th-century context in which his views originated and developed, by analysing many logical sources that are still unedited and mostly unexplored.