WILLIAM OF OCKHAM: A SHORT DISCOURSE ON TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT by Arthur Stephen McGrade (Editor), William of Ockham, John Kilcullen (Trans) ( 9780521358033 )

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WILLIAM OF OCKHAM: A SHORT DISCOURSE ON TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT

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Arthur Stephen McGrade (Editor), William of Ockham, John Kilcullen (Trans)

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

20 August, 1992

Series:

Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought

Pages:

252

Translated from:

Latin

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The Short Discourse is a passionate but compelling statement of Ockham's position on the most fundamental political problem of the medieval period.

Synopsis:

William of Ockham (c. 1285-c. 1347) was the most eminent and influential theologian and philosopher of his day, a giant in the history of political thought. He was a Franciscan friar who came to believe that the Avignonese papacy of John XXII had set out to destroy the religious ideal on which the Franciscan order was based: the complete poverty of Christ and the apostles. This is the first complete text by Ockham to be published in English. The Short Discourse is a passionate but compelling statement of Ockham's position on the most fundamental political problem of the medieval period: the relationship of supreme spiritual authority, as represented by the pope, to the autonomous secular authority claimed by the medieval empire and the emerging nation-states of Europe. Professor McGrade's introduction, and the notes on the translation make the volume wholly accessible to a modern readership, while a full bibliography and chronology are included as further aids to the reader.

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