Wednesday, December 17, 2008

William of ockham


William of Ockham was born in 1288 .He belong to the Franciscan order . He studied theology at the University of Oxford from 1309 to 1321, but he never completed his studyes.
He lived in a very difucult periode because his ideology was very diferent to cristhian Pope John XXII and he was acused of heresy .Ockham though a alternative theory to the Chistian ideology in this time.He was philosophy teacher´s in a franciscan school, but he had difficulties .
Ockham, and other Franciscan sympathizers went to Avignon on 1328, he was lived under proteccion of Michael of Cesana , He spent much time of his life writing about political idees, he spoke about of the relative authority and rights of the spiritual and temporal powers. When Cesena death in 1342 , Ockham and other Franciscan sympathizers went to Avignon on 1328, and eventually was refuge in the court of the Louis IV of Bavaria ,who was also in dispute with the papacy. Ockham was excommunicated for leaving Avignon, but his philosophy was never officially condemned.
Ockhan was one of the major figures of medieval thought and was at the centre of the major intellectual and political controversies of the fourteenth century. He though the Occam's Razor theory, produced significant works on logic, physics, and theology.
He was deah on 1347 in Munich.



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