

The master is, so to speak, an expert witness whom the student examines. If you are interested in purchasing or ordering books from Ockham Publishing Group in wholesale, as a bulk buy or. The student is usually the initiator he chooses the topics, asks most of the questions and decides when he has heard enough. Shop our inventory for Collected Articles on Ockham: Franciscan Institute Publications, Philosophy Series, No. The Dialogus purports to be a transcript made by a mature student of lengthy discussions between himself and a university master about the various opinions of the learned on the matters disputed between John XXII and the dissident Franciscans. Publisher, University of Notre Dame Press, 1987 Original from, the University of Michigan Digitized, ISBN, 0268019401, 9780268019402 Length. ReligionPublisher: Ockham PublishingPublished: Format: PaperbackPage Count: 372Goodreads Rating: 4.71Goodreads ID. of the functions and powers of the pope) and political philosophy. This campaign led him into questions of ecclesiology (the study of the nature and structure of the Christian Church, e.g. From that year until the end of his life he worked to overthrow what he saw as the tyranny of Pope John XXII (1316-1334) and of his successors Popes Benedict XII (1334-1342) and Clement VI (1342-1352). In 1328 Ockham turned away from 'pure' philosophy and theology to polemic.

William of Ockham was a medieval English philosopher and theologian (he was born about 1285, perhaps as late as 1288, and died in 1347 or 1348). He is probably best known today for his espousal of metaphysical nominalism indeed, the methodological principle known as Ockham’s Razor is named after him. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health 12871347) is, along with Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus, among the most prominent figures in the history of philosophy during the High Middle Ages.
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