This thinker calls his teacher, William of Champeaux, the "supreme master" of dialectic in an autobiographical letter that recounts how Anselm of Laon persecuted him.
This thinker calls his teacher, William of Champeaux, the "supreme master" of dialectic in an autobiographical letter that recounts how Anselm of Laon persecuted him. He argues that the mind's vices make one disposed to sin in his moral treatise Ethics, or Know Thyself. His most notable work begins with a prologue that states one should not rashly pass judgments on saints whose writings contradict each other. That work consists of 158 theological assertions and their (*) negations. This philosopher recounted how Fulbert hired a group of thieves to castrate him in History of My Calamities, which also describes a correspondence he maintained with a nun at Argenteuil (ARR-zhan-tuy). For 10 points, name this philosopher who wrote the book Sic et Non and married Héloïse
This thinker calls his teacher, William of Champeaux, the "supreme master" of dialectic in an autobiographical letter that recounts how Anselm of Laon persecuted him.
Peter Abelard [or Petrus Abaelardus or Abailardus; or Pierre Abelard]