William of Ockham A Short Discourse on Tyrannical Government

Name: William of Ockham A Short Discourse on Tyrannical Government
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ISBN: 9780521358033

ISBN-10: 0521358035

ISBN-13: 9780521358033

Edition: 1992

Authors: William of Ockham Staff, Arthur Stephen McGrade, John Kilcullen, Raymond Geuss, Quentin. Skinner

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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…

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List price: $40.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/20/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Preface


Note on references


List of abbreviations


Introduction


Principal dates in Ockham+s life


Suggestions for further reading


A Short Discourse on the Tyrannical Government over things


Divine and human, but especially over the Empire and those subject to the Empire


Usurped by some who are called Highest Pontiffs


Prologue


Book I


Book II


Book III


Book IV


Book V


Book VI


Appendix: text and translation


Bibliography


Index of references to the Bible


Index of references to canon law


Index of persons


Subject index