- Roscelin by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Born circa 1050 in Compiègne; died circa 1120. French medieval philosopher and theologian; representative of extreme nominalism.Roscelin taught liberal arts in Compiégne and later, in Loches, where his pupils included Abélard. After 1092 he was a canon at the cathedral of Besançon. Only one of his works has survived—a rhetorical pamphlet containing ...
- Nominalist by Webster's
... , who adopted the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions or universals, exist in name only.(n.) One of a sect of philosophers in the Middle Ages, who adopted the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions or universals, exist in name only.
- Anselm, Saint by Nevaeh Manning
... against the nominalist Roscelin. He taught the Immaculate Conception of Mary in De Conceptu Virginali. And is said to have instituted that feast in England. Feast: Apr. 21.BibliographySee his letters, translated by Fröhlich (1990); Walter Eadmer's Life of St. Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury (tr. By R. W. Southern, 1962); studies by R. W. Southern (1963, 1990 ...
- Abelard, Peter by Grace Cole
... of William of Champeaux and Roscelin on the problems of universals. His own solution, in which universals are considered as entities existent only in thought but with a basis in particulars, is called moderate realism and to some extent anticipates the conceptualism of St. Thomas Aquinas.His most influential work was Sic et non, a collection of contradictory ...
- Abelard, Peter by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Born 1079 in Palais; died Apr. 21, 1142, in the abbey of Saint Marcel near Châlons-sur-Saône. French philosopher, theologian, and poet.Abélard studied in Paris with Roscelin and William of Champeaux. In 1113 he opened his own school, which attracted many students. The tragic story of Abélard’s love for Héloïse ended with their withdrawal to a monastery (1119).In the argument about the ...