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William of ockham quotes8/4/2023 ![]() ![]() While in Avignon, Ockham stayed at the Franciscan convent there. Ockham was called to Avignon in May, 1324, to answer the charges. Īs a result, a commission of theologians was set up to study the case. About the same time, someone-it is not clear who-went from England to the Papal court at Avignon and charged Ockham with teaching heresy. In 1323 Ockham was called before the Franciscan province’s chapter meeting, held that year in Bristol, to defend his views, which were regarded with suspicion by some of his confreres. It was in this context that Ockham wrote many of his most important philosophical and theological works. Among his “housemates” were two other important Franciscan thinkers of the day, Walter Chatton and Adam Wodeham, both sharp critics of Ockham’s views. Nevertheless, London Greyfriars was an intellectually lively place, and Ockham was by no means isolated from the heat of academic controversy. ![]() Although he had taken the initial steps in the theology program at Oxford (hence his occasional nickname, the Venerabilis Inceptor, “Venerable Beginner”), Ockham did not complete the program there, and never became a fully qualified “master” of theology at Oxford. Then, probably in 1321, Ockham returned to London Greyfriars, where he remained. In any event, Ockham was at Oxford studying theology by at least the year 1318-19, and probably the previous year as well, when (in 1317) he began a required two-year cycle of lectures commenting on Peter Lombard’s Sentences, the standard theological textbook of the day. It could well have been at the London Convent, or it could have been at Oxford, where there was another Franciscan convent associated with the university. It is not certain where this training occurred. At Greyfriars, Ockham probably got most of his “grade school” education, and then went on to what we might think of as “high school” education in basic logic and “science” (natural philosophy), beginning around the age of fourteen.Īround 1310, when he was about 23, Ockham began his theological training. It was there that Ockham was sent.Īs an educational institution, even for higher education, London Greyfriars was a distinguished place at the time, it was second only to the full-fledged Universities of Paris and Oxford. There was no Franciscan house (called a “convent”) in the tiny village of Ockham itself the nearest one was in London, a day’s ride to the northeast. At an early age, somewhere between seven and thirteen, Ockham was “given” to the Franciscan order (the so called “Greyfriars”). He probably learned basic Latin at a village school in Ockham or nearby, but this is not certain. Ockham was born, probably in late 1287 or early 1288, in the village of Ockham (= Oak Hamlet) in Surrey, a little to the southwest of London. Ockham’s life may be divided into three main periods. As with so many medieval figures who were not prominent when they were born, we know next to nothing about the circumstances of Ockham’s birth and early years, and have to estimate dates by extrapolating from known dates of events later in his life. Ockham led an unusually eventful life for a philosopher. 6.2 Intuitive and Abstractive Cognition. ![]()
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