[ Home | Get Access | Plagiarism | Terms ] User Name: Password: Title: Abelard And Heloise Words: 1216 Abelard and Heloise It's interesting that Peter Abelard, although considering himself a devout religious man, had the ability to frontier a philosophical movement that cultivated a nothing-is-sacred position towards the Catholic Church. Abelard's Aristotelian views of Nominalism, and then new idea Conceptualism taught people to disregard the idea of a universal, instead flaunting abstracts in nature as supreme, and the idea of universals were merely pseudo-intellectual talk(Gans, Anthropoetics.ucla.edu). The mere roots of this arguments display Abelard's passion to use fact (abstracts or individual objects) to contradict and out-argue his teachers (universals). Abelard's arguments can still be seen today floating around in modern religious debate, I found them in a Catholic encyc ... Get the full essay and 29,000 more samples by joining PaperNerd.com You must be registered and logged in to access this essay. Click here to register, or if you are already a member you can login now.