PHIL249 Study Guide - Nominalism, Thomas Aquinas, Medieval Philosophy
7 Mar 2014
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Medieval philosophy is kind of peculiar: rst of all, not sure what philosophy is. not sure what medieval is either. everyone we read construed their project as a theological one. So everything we are dealign with here is theology permeating the boundaries of what is "philosophy". What medieval philosophy is: a passing on of a tremendous tradition of thought that gives modern philosophy its character. Medieval philosophy uni es ancient philosophy and judeo-christian thought. An attempt to join faith and reason. ancient philosophy (reason) modern philosophy judeochristian theology (faith) religion. Universals. he is deeply anti-realist. a hardcore nominalist on this. this also applies to his cognitive theory contra aquinas. aquinas is a moderate realist because he feels universals are just held in the mind of god. Ockham is like, no, there are just things. simpli es method, isn"t looking for transcendental things to hold universals didn"t do jewish thought. extraordinarily nuanced and important.
