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The Political Thought of William Ockham Revised Edition
Contributor(s): McGrade, Arthur Stephen (Author), Arthur Stephen, McGrade (Author)
ISBN: 0521522242     ISBN-13: 9780521522243
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $53.19  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2002
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Annotation: The English Franciscan, William of Ockham (c. 1285???1349), was one of the most important thinkers of the later middle ages. Summoned to Avignon in 1324 to answer charges of heresy, Ockham became convinced that Pope John XXII was himself a heretic in denying the complete poverty of Christ and the apostles and a tyrant in claiming supremacy over the Roman empire. Ockham??'s political writings were a result of these personal convictions, but also include systematic discourses on the basis and functions of spiritual and secular power as well as exhaustive discussions of Franciscan poverty and the general problem of papal heresy. Ockham emerges in this study as a man deeply committed to natural and Christian human rights, who found these fundamental values so seriously menaced in his time that their survival could be assured only by radical, even revolutionary, personal action and by a basic reworking of traditional political thought.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Western Europe - General
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - General
- History | Europe - Great Britain - General
Dewey: 320.509
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Third
Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6.26" W x 8.64" (0.79 lbs) 284 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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The English Franciscan, William of Ockham (c. 1285-1349), was one of the most important thinkers of the later middle ages. Summoned to Avignon in 1324 to answer charges of heresy, Ockham became convinced that Pope John XXII was himself a heretic in denying the complete poverty of Christ and the apostles and a tyrant in claiming supremacy over the Roman empire. Ockham's political writings were a result of these personal convictions, but also include systematic discourses on the basis and functions of spiritual and secular power as well as exhaustive discussions of Franciscan poverty and the general problem of papal heresy. Ockham emerges in this study as a man deeply committed to natural and Christian human rights, who found these fundamental values so seriously menaced in his time that their survival could be assured only by radical, even revolutionary, personal action and by a basic reworking of traditional political thought.