Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- General Introduction
- 1 ALBERT THE GREAT: Questions on Book X of the Ethics
- 2 BONAVENTURE: Conscience and Synderesis
- 3 GILES OF ROME: On the Rule of Princes (selections)
- 4 PETER OF AUVERGNE: Commentary and Questions on Book III of Aristotle's Politics (selections)
- 5 HENRY OF GHENT: Is It Rational for Someone without Hope of a Future Life to Choose to Die for the Commonwealth?
- 6 GODFREY OF FONTAINES: Does a Human Being Following the Dictates of Natural Reason Have to Judge that He Ought to Love God More than Himself?
- 7 JAMES OF VITERBO: Does a Human Being Have a Greater Natural Love for God than for Himself, or Vice Versa?
- 8 GODFREY OF FONTAINES: Reply to James of Viterbo on Love of God and Self
- 9 HENRY OF GHENT: Is a Subject Bound to Obey a Statute When It Is Not Evident that It Promotes the Common Utility?
- 10 GODFREY OF FONTAINES: Are Subjects Bound to Pay a Tax When the Need for It Is Not Evident?
- 11 JAMES OF VITERBO: Is It Better to Be Ruled by the Best Man than by the Best Laws?
- 12 JOHN OF NAPLES: Should a Christian King Use Unbelievers to Defend His Kingdom?
- 13 WILLIAM OF OCKHAM: Using and Enjoying
- 14 AUGUSTINE OF ANCONA: Summa on Ecclesiastical Power (selections)
- 15 WILLIAM OF OCKHAM: Is an Errant Individual Bound to Recant at the Rebuke of a Superior?
- 16 JEAN BURIDAN: Questions on Book X of the Ethics
- 17 JOHN WYCLIF: On Civil Lordship (selections)
- Index
13 - WILLIAM OF OCKHAM: Using and Enjoying
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- General Introduction
- 1 ALBERT THE GREAT: Questions on Book X of the Ethics
- 2 BONAVENTURE: Conscience and Synderesis
- 3 GILES OF ROME: On the Rule of Princes (selections)
- 4 PETER OF AUVERGNE: Commentary and Questions on Book III of Aristotle's Politics (selections)
- 5 HENRY OF GHENT: Is It Rational for Someone without Hope of a Future Life to Choose to Die for the Commonwealth?
- 6 GODFREY OF FONTAINES: Does a Human Being Following the Dictates of Natural Reason Have to Judge that He Ought to Love God More than Himself?
- 7 JAMES OF VITERBO: Does a Human Being Have a Greater Natural Love for God than for Himself, or Vice Versa?
- 8 GODFREY OF FONTAINES: Reply to James of Viterbo on Love of God and Self
- 9 HENRY OF GHENT: Is a Subject Bound to Obey a Statute When It Is Not Evident that It Promotes the Common Utility?
- 10 GODFREY OF FONTAINES: Are Subjects Bound to Pay a Tax When the Need for It Is Not Evident?
- 11 JAMES OF VITERBO: Is It Better to Be Ruled by the Best Man than by the Best Laws?
- 12 JOHN OF NAPLES: Should a Christian King Use Unbelievers to Defend His Kingdom?
- 13 WILLIAM OF OCKHAM: Using and Enjoying
- 14 AUGUSTINE OF ANCONA: Summa on Ecclesiastical Power (selections)
- 15 WILLIAM OF OCKHAM: Is an Errant Individual Bound to Recant at the Rebuke of a Superior?
- 16 JEAN BURIDAN: Questions on Book X of the Ethics
- 17 JOHN WYCLIF: On Civil Lordship (selections)
- Index
Summary
Introduction
William of Ockham was born around 1287, probably in the village of Ockham near London. After entering the Franciscan order he studied at Oxford and completed the requirements for the master's degree in theology He never became a regent master, however, probably because of the need to defend his teachings on grace, free will, and other topics from charges of heresy brought against them at the papal court in Avignon in the mid-1320s. While Ockham was in Avignon, he concluded that Pope John XXII was himself a heretic on points of doctrine held by most Franciscans at the time to be essential to Christian belief. Ockham fled the curia in 1328 with the Minister General of his order and a few confreres, taking refuge with Ludwig of Bavaria, who was at odds with the papacy over his title as Roman emperor. Ockham then wrote against the teachings of John XXII and John's successor Benedict XII, composed a massive treatise in dialogue form on heresy (with special reference to papal heresy), and discussed at some length the basis and functions of secular and religious governmental institutions. He is usually thought to have died in Munich in 1347 during an outbreak of plague.
Ockham was formally excommunicated for leaving Avignon without permission and was implicitly condemned as a heretic for his opposition to John XXII's bulls against the dominant Franciscan conception of the poverty of Christ, the apostles, and the Franciscans themselves.
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- The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts , pp. 349 - 417Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000