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3. Aug. 2004 · 6. Ethics. Abelard takes the rational core of traditional Christian morality to be radically intentionalist, based on the following principle: the agent’s intention alone determines the moral worth of an action. His main argument against the moral relevance of consequences turns on what contemporary philosophers often refer to as ...
Latin. Genre. Philosophy. Publication date. c. 1138–1139. The Ethica ( Ethics ), also known as Scito te ipsum ( Know Yourself ), is a twelfth-century philosophical treatise by Peter Abelard. In it, Abelard argues that sin or "scorn for God" is fundamentally a matter of consent, not deeds.
Abelard’s two major ethical works—the Ethics or Know yourself and the Dialogue Between a Philosopher, a Jew, and a Christian (or Colationes)—were both written in the late 1130’s. Over the course of his career Abelard wrote three distinct treatises on the Trinity.
Metaphysics, logic, philosophy of language, theology. Notable ideas. Conceptualism, limbo, moral influence theory of atonement [1] [2] Peter Abelard ( / ˈæbəlɑːrd /; French: Pierre Abélard; Latin: Petrus Abaelardus or Abailardus; c. 1079 – 21 April 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, leading logician ...
1. Jan. 2020 · Policies and ethics. The characteristic doctrines of Peter Abelard (1079–1142) can be arranged under the headings of logic, metaphysics, and ethics. Abelard rejects the position that logical theory deals with universals taken as things (res). It deals with words, whose...
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23. Juni 2016 · The unfinished second book of the Ethics begins with a description of what Abelard takes himself to have accomplished in the first book, namely, the provision of an understanding of what sins are, how they are rectified, and how they differ from vices ( Sc. 128.1–4, Spade 1995, 226).
Early in the Ethics, Abelard distinguishes between (1) that which is merely called “sin” and (2) sin, “sin as such” or “sin properly [proprie] speaking.” 11 It is (2), sinas such, that Abelard declares actual sin—sin that requires pen-
