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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Peter Abelard
Taking Abelard's own account of the incident, it is impossible not to blame him for the temerity which made him such enemies as Alberic and Lotulph, pupils of Anselm, who, later on, appeared against Abelard.
That Abelard was unduly conscious of these advantages is admitted by his most ardent admirers; indeed, in the "Story of My Calamities," he confesses that at that period of his life he was filled with vanity and pride.
Abelard's influence on his immediate successors was not very great, owing partly to his conflict with the ecclesiastical authorities, and partly to his personal defects, more especially his vanity and pride, which must have given the impression that he valued truth less than victory.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/01036b.htm   (2250 words)

  
 Abelard, Peter. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Abelard went (c.1100) to Paris to study under William of Champeaux at the school of Notre Dame and soon attacked the ultrarealist position of his master with such success that William was forced to modify his teaching.
Abelard became master at Notre Dame but, when deprived of his place, set himself up (1112) at a school on Mont-Ste-Geneviève, just outside the city walls.
Abelard was perhaps most important as a teacher; among his pupils were some of the celebrated men of the 12th cent., including John of Salisbury and Arnold of Brescia.
www.bartleby.com /65/ab/Abelard.html   (662 words)

  
 Peter Abelard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pierre Abélard (in English, Peter Abelard) or Abailard (1079 – April 21, 1142) was a French scholastic philosopher and logician.
The nominalist Roscellinus, the famous canon of Compiegne, claims to have been his teacher; but whether this was in early youth, when he wandered from school to school for instruction and exercise, or some years later, after he had already begun to teach, remains uncertain.
The Abelard Centre for Education, a Toronto-based Private School, is named after Peter Abélard.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Abelard   (2710 words)

  
 TAPE 5: PETER ABELARD
Humiliated and remorseful, Abelard became a monk: "It was, I confess, confusion springing from shame rather than devotion the result of conversion, which drove me to the refuge of the monastic cloister".
Abelard was strongly criticised by St Bernard of Clairvaux (not to be confused with Bernard of Chartres), and in 1140 the provincial Council of Sens condemned propositions supposedly drawn from his writings (though in fact some of them may have come from writings of his students).
In paragraph 28 Abelard's point is that universals and appellative or common nouns are not coextensive: "they are related to each other as that which exceeds and that which is exceeded", reciprocally - some common nouns fall outside the class of universals, some universals fall outside the class of common nouns.
www.humanities.mq.edu.au /Ockham/x52t05.html   (6575 words)

  
 Peter Abelard
Abelard was a French philosopher and theologian whose fame as a teacher and intellectual made him one of the most renowned figures of the 12th century.
Abelard's teaching was condemned at Soursouns in 1121 and his first theological work had been burned as heretical.
Abelard was unhappy in the role of monk, and because he and his fellow monks could not agree he parted company and resumed lecturing.
www.latter-rain.com /eccle/abela.htm   (1269 words)

  
 ORB --Abelard
Abelard was offered a post at Notre Dame, but was driven from Paris by William's enmity, and set up his school again in Melun; but when William moved his own school to a village outside Paris, Abelard returned and began to teach on the Mont Ste-Geneviève.
Abelard's decision to be a scholar rather than a soldier is thus presented not as a rebellion against his father's manner of life, but rather as a following in the footsteps of his role-model.
Abelard tells us that she was the niece of one Fulbert, a canon of Notre Dame, 'and so much loved by her that he had done everything in his power to advance her education in letters.' That is a very curious statement.
www.the-orb.net /encyclop/culture/philos/abelard1.html   (2248 words)

  
 Biography: Peter Abelard, abbot, theologian, philosopher (21 Apr 1142)
When Heloise became pregnant, Abelard wanted to marry her, but she argued that he was a great philosopher, destined to change the intellectual history of the world, and that his work was far too important to be imperilled by the consequences of marriage.
Abelard was summoned to the Council of Sens in 1141, expecting to debate the matter with Bernard, only to find that the Council had already decided to condemn him and would not even permit him to speak in his own defense.
Abelard remained at Cluny for a while and then was brought by friends to the priory of St. Marcel (a daughter house of Cluny), where he died 21 April 1142.
elvis.rowan.edu /~kilroy/JEK/04/21b.html   (2289 words)

  
 Peter Abelard
Abelard's theory of substantial integral wholes is not a pure mereology in the modern sense, since he holds that there are privileged divisions: just as a genus is properly divided into not just any species but its proximate species, so too the division of a whole must be into its principal parts.
Abelard holds that the signification of a term is the informational content of the concept that is associated with the term upon hearing it, in the normal course of events.
Abelard maintains that the part is essentially different from the integral whole of which it is a part, reasoning that a given part is completely contained, along with other parts, in the whole, and so is less than the quantity of the whole.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/abelard   (10782 words)

  
 Irvine, "Abelard's Negotiations of Gender"
Abelard's narrative of identity anxieties in his Letter of Consolation to a Friend,[1] incorrectly called by its modern editorial title, the Historia calamitatum (c.1132), is well known, but the significance of Abelard's representations of self and the body and his strategies for remasculinization have not yet become a concern of modern scholars.
Abelard's narratives of emasculation and remasculinization participate in a large body of discourse and genres that represent bodily mutilation and stories of castration anxieties generally, and the cultural meaning of the events narrated in Abelard's letters must be sought in the larger social system of values and identities within which they were produced.
Abelard's ego-ideal at the close of the letter is that of father, the paternal provider of a community of daughters, Heloise's convent of the Paraclete.
www.georgetown.edu /labyrinth/conf/cs95/papers/irvine.html   (3519 words)

  
 Peter Abelard, 1079-1142
Abelard founded the school of the Paraclete near Nogent-sur-Seine in 1125, left to become abbot of St. Gildas in Brittany, and returned to Paris to lecture at St. Geneviève, where John of Salisbury became his pupil in 1136.
Abelard died at the Cluniac priory in St. Marcel-sur-Saône in 1142 and was buried with Heloise.
Abelard, it is true, was a monk and an abbot, but he became such by force of circumstances and not from choice.
www.historyguide.org /intellect/abelard.html   (1304 words)

  
 The Ecole Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Abelard was born in 1079 into a knightly family in Pallet, near Nantes.
Abelard put forth the idea that universals exist a thoughts based on the particulars of things, in contrast to the idea that only things exist and the idea that only classes exist.
Abelard also suggested in Ethica that intent is the criterion by which one ought to judge sin because a deed by itself is neutral.
www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/abelard.html   (396 words)

  
 Juilliard | The Juilliard Journal Online
After the baby was born, Heloise and Abelard returned to Paris and were secretly married in the presence of her uncle.
Abelard entered the Abbey of St. Denis, but later sought the protection of Peter the Venerable after being condemned by the Church for his unorthodox theological views.
Corsaro notes that his greatest challenge as a librettist was to capture the eloquence of their letters — only nine of which survive — in the context of spoken and sung dialogue, and to extrapolate a logical sequence of events from their correspondence.
www.juilliard.edu /update/journal/330journal_story_0204.asp   (1388 words)

  
 abelard public education site
abelard of le pallet on theology - abelard 2001
the logic of ethics; with commentary on abelard of le pallet - abelard, 2000
the psychology of rex stout, nero wolfe and archie goodwin - abelard, 2005
www.abelard.org   (376 words)

  
 Heloise and Abelard - History for Kids!
Abelard, who was born in 1079 AD, came to Paris as a young man and taught classes at the new Christian church school there.
Abelard was a very good teacher, and used logical methods to try to answer difficult questions about what God was really like.
Abelard died in 1142 AD, when he was 63, and Heloise died in 1164.
www.historyforkids.org /learn/science/abelard.htm   (329 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Eloisa to Abelard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Abelard was the intellectual idol of Paris and had a large following of students, numbering many thousands.
When the affair was discovered and Heloise found she was pregnant, Abelard conveyed her to his family chateau in Brittany, where she gave birth to a son, named Astrolabe.
To appease her uncle, Abelard married Heloise (although she protested that she preferred to remain his mistress) on condition the marriage remain secret, since he was bound to celibacy if he was to advance in the Church.
www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5408   (584 words)

  
 Love goes pair-shaped - [Sunday Herald]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Abelard and Heloise were historical figures living in the early 12th century.
Peter Abelard was considered, principally by himself, to be “the greatest philosopher in the world”.
Abelard is the star, though, and William finds himself relegated to the role of go-between.
www.sundayherald.com /44061   (799 words)

  
 TAPE 6: ABELARD (CONT.); em>ABBREVIATIO MONTANA</em>
Abelard will call "being a something" a status: a vague and not particularly suitable word, but he needs some term to refer to these non-things in which things agree.
There are some who identify the mental grasp with the image, whereas Abelard distinguishes the act of understanding from the image to which it is directed.
The original aspect of Abelard's theory of universals is his account of how they can have meaning even though there are in reality no universal things to which they can refer.
www.humanities.mq.edu.au /Ockham/x52t06.html   (5100 words)

  
 Jean Vignaud   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
This is further heightened by the work's jewel-like colors that recall the preciousness of medieval manuscripts, by the meticulous precision of details that evoke medieval miniature painting, and by the enamel-like surface achieved by layers upon layers of transparent colored glazes.
Abelard (1079-1142), one of the leading and most controversial thinkers of his day, was Heloise's tutor.
Heloise eventually took vows and became a respected Abbess, while Abelard was prominent in a number of religious and political disputes, which culminated in his famous controversy with Bernard of Clairvaux.
www.joslyn.org /permcol/euro/pages/vignaud.html   (333 words)

  
 Chronicles of Love and Resentment XIII
Abelard (1079-1142), the perfector of nominalism, the basis of modern empiricism, was arguably the first modern thinker.
Heloise treats Abelard as her superior, as in intellect and learning--and years--no doubt he was, just as he was superior to his masculine contemporaries.
Abelard and Heloise, their love all too literally cut short, deserve to be called the creators of the modern ideal of marriage founded on the voluntarily shared tenderness of a couple who shelter each other from the harshly competitive world of the marketplace.
www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/anthropoetics/views/view13.htm   (1143 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Abelard and Heloise
Reuters - Thu Mar 3, 8:13 AM ET Two star-crossed medieval lovers, Abelard and Heloise, are again stirring passions in France as a literary controversy rages nearly 900 years after their affair.
Thu Mar 3, 8:13 AM ET Two star-crossed medieval lovers, Abelard and Heloise, are again stirring passions in France as a literary controversy rages nearly 900 years after their affair.
Audouard has taken another risk by retelling the classic story of Abelard and Heloise from the point of view of a fictional English narrator named William, who claims not only to be recording their tale but, more alarmingly, to have fabricated the letters that immortalized them and their doomed passion.
news.surfwax.com /dramatheatre/files/Abelard_and_Heloise_Show.html   (713 words)

  
 The philosophy of love | csmonitor.com
Abelard and Heloise were the smartest people of the 12th century - and the most passionate.
Abelard was the hippest philosopher of the 12th century, and Heloise may have been the smartest woman.
Accusations flew and tempers raged, but they managed to work out a weird compromise: Abelard agreed to make an honest woman of Heloise, but to protect his position, their marriage would be secret.
www.csmonitor.com /2005/0208/p15s01-bogn.html   (1070 words)

  
 Medieval Sourcebook: Peter Abelard: Historia Calamitatum [Full Text]
Peter Abelard (1079-1142) was one of the great intellectuals of the 12th century, with especial importance in the field of logic.
Abelard's mistake was to leave the questions open for discussion and so he was repeatedly charged with heresy.
Abelard, a intellectual jouster throughout his life was notably less happy as a monk.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/basis/abelard-histcal.html   (15686 words)

  
 Abelard the Bard
Abelard the Bard as he was accepted by the first Muse, Kathy Pickett
Abelard packing for his adventure with the Eight Muses.
Abelard's close friend, the Pink Lady at his farewell party.
www.florilegium.com /abelard_the_bard.htm   (198 words)

  
 Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope at Old Poetry
Abelard took Eloisa to a convent at Argenteuil where she was professed as a
Vestals could know no earthly love, much to Eloise's dismay, for she has fallen in love with Abelard, who was sentenced to exile (from what I understood) as a consequence.
On one hand, she wish she could forget about him and be devoted to God, yet on the other hand she admits that she is not sorry for what happened, and is in dispair, much more so because of her lost love than because of her guiltiness.
www.oldpoetry.com /poetry/4632   (4039 words)

  
 Abelard & Heloise - A Musical Drama
At the height of their passion Abelard is castrated by Heloise's enraged uncle and relatives.
Then, in his shame and horror, to add separation and waste to the recipe, Abelard orders Heloise into a nunnery, and becomes a monk himself.
"Abelard and Heloise was staged in a concert version but even in its unfinished state it is a remarkable and exciting work.
www.fiddeslaw.com.au /ah/index2.htm   (271 words)

  
 The Letters of Abelard and Heloise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
lt;br /gt; lt;br /gt;Letter 3, Abelard to Heloise.
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These two lovers from Medieval Europe begin their relationship living in the, "City of the World." After Abelard is ordained as a eunuch by Heloises fathers holy pocket knife the star-crossed lovers are faced with a new outlook on life.
www.worldhistoryhub.com /The_Letters_of_Abelard_and_Heloise_0140442979.html   (1186 words)

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