william of Ockham

William of Ockham::

Introduction

Waas born in Ockham, in england, on 1285, he was very poor. he was the principal nominalist of the 14 century. He entered the Order of the Franciscans at a very early age, studying theology in Oxford where he was a professor between 1317 and 1319.

Critical of the ideas of thomas aquinas, he was very polemical in his own time, as he considered the existence of God more of a probability than a certainty. Outstanding among his works is the Quodlibeta Septem, a commentary on the sentences of Pietro Lombardo. It seems that he could have died of the plague in 1347.

his works

Ockham joined the Franciscan Order was still very young and was raised in the first Franciscan house in London and later in Oxford. Did not complete his studies at Oxford, but it was during this period and the years immediately following when he wrote most of the philosophical and theological works on which his reputation rests primarily.

religion

• Political crisis: secularization of European political system; opposition from papacy and the civil power.

• Crisis religious schism to Occidente, captivity of Avignon, groups heretics, mystical retreat, and so on.

• Economic Crisis: the return of hunger, pests and mortalities, economic fluctuations.

• Crisis social collapse feudal, emigration from the countryside to the city, European urbanization.

• Crisis philosophical and theological: opposition between so-called "road Old "and" modernorum way.

think to understand Ockham as a philosopher, we must not lose sight of that one of his main concerns was to purge the theology and Christian philosophy of all traces of Greek need