Capitolo 77
quickly able delay well over the Church and William of
Same Champeaux brought him/it to the extension to dispute that nothing
it is true but the universal one. The nominalists, on the other hand,
disputed those "universals" I am mere notions of the mind and that
individuals are true alone; their witticism was the sunt of _Universalia
nomina_. This way the central question in the long controversy
pertained to the reality of abstract or it incorporates the ideas, and it is
being observed that the realists diametrically held sights opposite
to those that it implicates the "realism" of word today. In to lift the
the reality of the idea, they was those what time you/he/she would have called idealists,
while their opponents, denying the reality of the extractions and
insisting on that some concrete individual or it objects, it was
realists in the modern sense.
The particular importance of this controversy placed in its effect on
the status of the Church. If nominalisms had to prevail, then the
Church would be naked of a lot of of its authority, for his greater
disposition of power in his conception as a durable reality out of
and above all the individuals that divided in his/her job. It is not
strange, then, that the ardent realism of William of Champeaux
it would be due to be outraged by the nominalistic logic of Abelard.
Abelard, didn't go never indeed to so extreme lengths as the
arc-nominalist, Roscellinus from what you/he/she was duly condemned for heresy
the Board of Soissons in 1092, but he went rather far enough to
wins for him the imperishable enmity of the principal realists that
you/he/she was followed by the great majority of the clergy.
PORPHYRY
The introduction ("Isagoge") to the Categories of Aristotle,
Written by the Greek researcher and neoplatonist Porphyry in the third one
century AD, you/he/she was translated in the Latin by Boetius, and in this
form was extensively used in every Century Averages as a
summary of the Aristotelian logic. As it was a philosopher Porphyry
mainly important as the immediate successor of Plotinus in the