Capitolo 9
universal it was indeed only nominally; and on that account he was
called a nominalist. Truth, the virtue, humanity exists as unity and
the realities, said William. The truth, answered Abelard is only the sum of
all the possible facts what as humanity are true it is the sum of everybody
human beings and actual. The ideal bed is a form, served as God, says
Plato. The ideal bed is a name, it imagined alone, says
Aristotle. 'I start from the universe', said William. 'I start from
the atom', said Abelard; and, having started once, them necessarily
entered collision to of the point among the two."
In this "History of My Adversities" Abelard gives his/her his/her own account of
the triumphant way in which him confused his/her master William,,
but as Henry Adams it says, "We should be more gullible person that
monks of twelfth-century, if we believed, on the word of Abelard in 1135,
what in 1110 he had driven out some schools the most finished
dialectician of the age from such a family objection that anybody other
dialectician was made to ever keep silent of it--anything is been able to be the
case with theologian-and so obvious that could not shake
a researcher of fifteen. William affirmed a selected doctrine as old man as
Plato; Abelard inserted an objection old as Aristotle. Probably
Plato and Aristotle had received the question and you/they had answered from
philosophers ten thousand years older than them. Certainly
the whole one of the philosophy has always been involved in this dispute."
Then the battle of the schools started with his more military
strategy and tactic, and in the end it was a drawn battle, in
spite of his/her wonder of intellectual and dialectical heroism
sublety. It says again Henry Adams:--
"In every to equip of age has been proper to uncomfortably dream, while rolling from side
to side, striking against imaginary bars unless, tired out, he has
sunk in the indifference or the skepticism. You lie religious they prefer
skepticism. The true saint is a deep sceptic; a total
disbeliever in human reason that has more than once it connected hands on