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their places in the history of the philosophy; the history of Abelard
love for Heloise has separately put him, so that him alive from the eight
centuries as a thinker without fear and logical magistral that as
one of the passionately romantic figures of the Middle Ages.
"A FRIEND"
It is not known to whom the letter of Abelard was addressed, but it is able
is guessed that the writer the agreements to reach the hands of
Heloise. Indeed this and the first and more famous one it happened
letter from Heloise to Abelard was substantially an answer to the
"Historia Calamitatum."
WILLIAM OF CHAMPEAUX
William of Champeaux (Gulielmus Campellensis) it was approximately born 1070
to Champeaux, Melun nearby. He studied under Anselm of Laon and
Roscellinus, his/her training in philosophy that is influenced with this from
realism and nominalism. Its his/her own inclination, was however
strongly toward the first one, and it was as a definite proponent
of realism that he has started to teach to the school of the cathedral of
Dame of Notre of whom he was made canon in 1103. In 1108 he withdrew
to the abbey of St. Victor, and accordingly it became a bishop of
Chalons-sur-Marne. He died in 1121. As a teacher its influence was
wide; he was a vigorous defender of the orthodoxy and an impassioned
adversary of the heterodox philosophy of his/her first master,
Roscellinus. What Abelard and he didn't agree it was only natural, but
The affirmation of Abelard that he debated William in abandoning the
principles of base of its philosophy are certainly false.
"THE UNIVERSALS"
It is not inside the province of man note as this to discuss in
you detail the great controversy among the realists and the
nominalists that dominated the philosophical one and, to of the extension,
the religious thought of France during the first halves the
twelfth century. Shortly, the realists maintained, that idea is
a reality distinguished from and independent of the individuals
constituting him/it; their witticism, realia_ of sunt of _Universalia was