Events Tagged: "nominalism"

Bishop Tempier condemns 219 propositions at Paris, unintentionally destroying Thomistic synthesis

William of Ockham born (1285-1347) - The Nominalist Revolution - 'Entities should not be multiplied without necessity' - Universals are just names, only individuals exist

Ockham develops nominalist philosophy - 'Entities should not be multiplied without necessity'

St. Bridget's Revelations published posthumously - Contains 700 visions including on nominalism: 'Those who say universal ideas exist only in mind blaspheme against My creation'

Luther posts 95 Theses - nominalism bears its poisonous fruit - Luther trained in Ockhamist philosophy: 'Reason is the Devil's whore' - Faith alone - complete voluntarism - Destroys reason-faith synthesis permanently

St. Thomas More writes against Luther - 'Luther has become intoxicated by his own novel ideas' - More identifies core problem: nominalism destroying objective truth

Galileo's trial and nominalist victory - 'The book of nature is written in mathematical language' - Primary qualities (mathematical) real, secondary qualities subjective

Thomas Hobbes's 'Leviathan' - 'Words are wise men's counters... but they are the money of fools' - No essences, only names we impose - 'The universe is corporeal; all that is real is material' - Man in nature: 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'

Stirner's The Ego and Its Own - pure nominalist egoism, I am the creative nothing