William of Ockham (c. 1285-c. 1387) was the most eminent theologian and philosopher of his day, a Franciscan friar who came to believe that the Avignonese papacy of John XXII had set out to destroy the religious ideal on which his order was based: the complete poverty of Christ and the Apostles. A Short Discourse on Tyrannical Government is an attack on the claims of the medieval Church, specifically the papacy, to universal spiritual and secular power. Written at the time of the emergence of the European nation-states, Ockham's work issued a direct hard-hitting challenge to the claims of limitless papal power. The text is accompanied by a full bibliography, a chronology and an introduction setting his work in its intellectual and historical context.

William of Ockham: A Short Discourse on Tyrannical Government (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

Ockham, William of

Religion & Spirituality

Cambridge University Press

This volume contains selections of Ockham's philosophical writings which give a balanced introductory view of his work in logic, metaphysics, and ethics. This edition includes textual markings referring readers to appendices containing changes in the Latin text and alterations found in the English translation that have been made necessary by the critical edition of Ockham’s work published after Boehner prepared the original text. The updated bibliography includes the most important scholarship produced since publication of the original edition.

Ockham - Philosophical Writings: A Selection

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

Ockham: Philosophical Writings (Hackett Classics)

Includes an introduction by Marilyn McCord Adams along with Notes and Appendices.

Predestination, God's Foreknowledge, And Future Contingents (Hackett Classics)

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