Philosopher

Peter Abelard

Overview

French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Works by Peter Abelard you can read

• Historia Calamitatum
• Letters of Abelard and Heloise
• The love letters of Abelard and Heloise

Philosophers who discussed Peter Abelard

• John of Salisbury
• Jean Buridan
• Anselm of Laon
• William of Conches
• Anselm of Canterbury
• Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
• Aristotle
• Adelard of Bath
• Roscellinus
• William of Champeaux
• Heloise

Ideas Peter Abelard discusses

• Eusebius
• Empiricism
• Jesus
• Faith
• French Revolution
• Beatific vision
• Greek language
• Philosophical realism
• Hebrew language
• Philosophy
• Immanuel Kant
• John of Salisbury
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Jerome
• Pleasure
• Anselm of Laon
• Victor Cousin
• Latin
• Middle Ages
• Doctrine
• Desire
• Messiah
• Augustine of Hippo
• Nominalism

Place in the tradition

Part of Fideism.

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