ISBN: 9781130633030

RareBooksClub.com. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 750 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.5in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.… More...

RareBooksClub.com. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 750 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.5in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: . . . nominalism, which had becomo nearly extinct, when it was revived by William of Occam, princept nominalium, an English Franciscan, in tho 14th century. lie declared that in the mind of God there is an idea corresponding to every thing created or possible; that only individuals can be created, and that they alone imply the existence of the idea which is their type and plan; and that there can be no similar ideas of genera and specie. He thus transferred reality from the ideas of universals to those of individuals, and reduced the former to abstract notions, ilis theory includes the principal doctrine of conceptualism. The controversy now became so violent that the doctors, according to Vivee, often came to blows, not only with their fist but with clubs and swords; and Occam died in exile after having identified nominalism with tho movements against the ecclesiastical theology and tho policy of the papacy. Among his followers were Holcot, Rimini, Ruridon, Pierre dAilly, Heinrich von Hessen, Nikolaus Oresmius, and Gabriel Biel; yet political influence contrived the proscription of his doctrine by Louis XI. (1473), the masters being forbidden to teach it, and the books which favored it being ordered to be given up to the president of the parliament or chained in the public libraries. The proscription was removed in 1481, and the nominalists flourished in France and Germany, while realism was protected and encouraged in Italy by Pope John XXIII. Among the defenders of realism in tho 14th century were Henry of Ghent, Walter Burleigh, Thomas of Strasbourg. Marsile of Inghen, and Thomas of Bradwardine. Nominalism contributed to introduce a freer spirit into speculation, and with the revival of letters and the Protestant reformation to overthrow scholasticism. The . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub.com<

ISBN: 9781130633030

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 750 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.5in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… More...

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 750 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.5in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: . . . nominalism, which had becomo nearly extinct, when it was revived by William of Occam, princept nominalium, an English Franciscan, in tho 14th century. lie declared that in the mind of God there is an idea corresponding to every thing created or possible; that only individuals can be created, and that they alone imply the existence of the idea which is their type and plan; and that there can be no similar ideas of genera and specie. He thus transferred reality from the ideas of universals to those of individuals, and reduced the former to abstract notions, ilis theory includes the principal doctrine of conceptualism. The controversy now became so violent that the doctors, according to Vivee, often came to blows, not only with their fist but with clubs and swords; and Occam died in exile after having identified nominalism with tho movements against the ecclesiastical theology and tho policy of the papacy. Among his followers were Holcot, Rimini, Ruridon, Pierre dAilly, Heinrich von Hessen, Nikolaus Oresmius, and Gabriel Biel; yet political influence contrived the proscription of his doctrine by Louis XI. (1473), the masters being forbidden to teach it, and the books which favored it being ordered to be given up to the president of the parliament or chained in the public libraries. The proscription was removed in 1481, and the nominalists flourished in France and Germany, while realism was protected and encouraged in Italy by Pope John XXIII. Among the defenders of realism in tho 14th century were Henry of Ghent, Walter Burleigh, Thomas of Strasbourg. Marsile of Inghen, and Thomas of Bradwardine. Nominalism contributed to introduce a freer spirit into speculation, and with the revival of letters and the Protestant reformation to overthrow scholasticism. The . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<