Wednesday, December 24, 2008


William of Ockham


William de Ockham was a franciscan friar and English scholastic philosopher.
He was born in 12800, in a little village of Surrey, nearly East Hosrley.
He went to the franciscan order when he were young. He studied in Oxford, but he didn't finish his studies.When he left the studies, he wrote his philosophical and theological books.
The Papa Juan XXII condemned to him by heresy, and he stayed four years in the Avignon jail under house arrest.
In 1328 he fled Avignon, and he went with Miguel Cesna and more friars to Pisa.

Ockham was the greatest nominalist and metaphysician, and one of the most intelligent person in the Average age.

He is one father of the modern philosophy.
He wrote more than thirty philosophy, religion and policy books.


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