William of Ockham, the most prestigious philosopher of the fourteenth century, was a late Scholastic thinker who is regarded as the founder of Nominalism - the school of thought that denies that universals have any reality apart from the individual things signified by the universal or general term. Ockham's Summa Logicae was intended as a basic text in philosophy, but its originality and scope encompass his whole system of philosophy. Yet the paucity of English translations and the structural complexity of the Latin have made the Summa, until now, almost completely inaccessible. 
Here Michael Loux has translated the first part of the Summa, one of the most original and influential medieval texts in logic.

Ockham's Theory of Terms: Part 1 of the Summa Logicae

Politics & Social Sciences

William of Ockham

Philosophy

University of Notre Dame Press

In this work Ockham proposes a theory of simple predication, which he then uses in explicating the truth conditions of progressively more complicated kinds of propositions. His discussion includes what he takes to be the correct semantic treatment of quantified propositions, past tense and future tense propositions, and modal propositions, all of which are receiving much attention from contemporary philosophers. He also illustrates the use of exponential analysis to deal with propositions that prove troublesome in both semantic theory and other disciplines, such as metaphysics, physics, and theology. This type of analysis plays an essential role in his substantive philosophical and theological works, and in many cases then can hardly be understood without a prior acquaintance with this section of the Summa.

Ockham's Theory of Propositions: Part II of the Summa Logicae

William of Ockham (c.1285-1347) was the preeminent Franciscan thinker of the 14th century and is generally acknowledged to be a pivotal figure in the transition from the high Aristotelianism of the 13th century to the revolutions in philosophy, theology, and science which mark the Renaissance. Though Ockham was born in England and educated at Oxford, only a small fraction of his corpus has been hitherto translated into English. This two-volume set, the first English translation of "Quodlibetal Questions", is based on the new critical edition of Ockham's theological and philosophical works. The work, most likely written in the early 1320s when Ockham was living in London, comprises mature discussions of many of his favourite topics in logic, ontology, natural philosophy, philosophical psychology, moral theory, and theology. It serves as an introduction to his philosophical method as well as to his characteristic doctrines. The "Yale Library of Medieval Philosophy" series makes available works of the Middle Ages in accurate English translations. Each volume provides a brief introduction, notes and a detailed index.

William of Ockham: Quodlibetal Questions V.I (I-IV AND V.2)

Yale Univ Pr

This book offers the first English translation of the Quodlibetal Questions of William of Ockham (c. 1285-1347)—reflections on a variety of topics in logic, ontology, natural philosophy, philosophical psychology, moral theory, and theology by one of the preeminent thinkers of the Middle Ages. It is based on the recent critical edition of Ockham’s theological and philosophical works.

Quodlibetal Questions: Quodlibets 1-7 (Vols. 1 and 2)

Yale University Press

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)

Cambridge University Press

William of Ockham: 'A Letter to the Friars Minor' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

More than any other single thinker, William of Ockham (c.1285-1347) is responsible for the widely held modern assumption that religious and secular-political institutions should operate independently of one another. His point of departure was a tragic collision between two specifically Christian ideals: that of St. Francis and that of a society guided by the single supreme authority of the Pope. This volume begins with his personal account of his engagement in that conflict and continues with essential passages from the major works in which he attempted to resolve it.

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

History

Philosophical Writings

Bobbs-Merrill Co.

La spada e Lo scettro. Due scritti politici. Testo latino a fronte

BUR Biblioteca Univ. Rizzoli

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Ockham's Theory of Terms: Part 1 of the Summa Logicae

Ockham's Theory of Propositions: Part II of the Summa Logicae

William of Ockham: Quodlibetal Questions V.I (I-IV AND V.2)

Quodlibetal Questions: Quodlibets 1-7 (Vols. 1 and 2)

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

William of Ockham: 'A Letter to the Friars Minor' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

William of Ockham: 'A Letter to the Friars Minor' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

Philosophical Writings

La spada e Lo scettro. Due scritti politici. Testo latino a fronte