Ockham and political discourse in the late Middle Ages / Takashi Shogimen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shōgimen, Takashi, 1967- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 69.

Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 69

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

William, of Ockham, approximately 1285-approximately 1349--Political and social views.

William.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Middle Ages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Ockham & Political Discourse in the Late Middle Ages

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The English Franciscan William of Ockham (c.1285-1347) was one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in late medieval Europe. Fresh scholarship has shown his profound impact on logic, metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of language in the late Middle Ages and beyond. Following a dispute between the papacy and his Order, Ockham abandoned his academic career and devoted himself to anti-papal polemics. Scholars have produced divergent and often contradictory interpretations of Ockham as a political thinker: a destructive critic of the medieval Church, a medieval Catholic traditionalist, the Franciscan ideologue, and a constitutional liberal. This 2007 book offers a fresh reappraisal of Ockham's political thought by approaching his anti-papal writings as a series of polemical responses. His aggressive and persistent attack on the papacy emerges in this study as an attempt to rescue the ethical foundations of the Christian society from the political influences of heretical popes.

Contents:

The poverty controversy

A general theory of heresy

The problem of papal heresy

Papal plenitudo potestatis

Petrine primacy

The defence of human freedom

Appendix : Ockham's 'Dialogus' and Marsilius' 'Defensor pacis'.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-17542-9

1-281-08504-9

9786611085049

1-139-13105-2

0-511-34193-8

0-511-49722-9

0-511-34140-7

0-511-34082-6

0-511-34246-2

OCLC:

667098877