WILLIAM OCKHAM



William was born in 1288, He belong to the Franciscan order (an eclesiastic order).
He studied theology at the University of Oxford from 1309 to 1321, but he never completed his studyes.
He lived in a very difucult periode because his ideology was very diferent to Frasciscan Order.
The Pope, John XXII and he was acused of heresy.
Ockham though a alternative theory to the Chistian ideology in this time.
He was philosophy teacher's in a franciscan school, but he had difficulties with the religion.
Ockham and other Franciscan sympathizers went to Avignon on 1328, and eventually was refuge in the court of the Louis IV of Bavaria ,who was also in dispute with the papacy. Ockham was excommunicated for leaving Avignon, but his philosophy was never officially condemned.
Ockhan was one of the major figures of medieval thought in England, and was at the centre of the major intellectual and political controversies of the fourteenth century.
He though the Occam's Razor theory, produced significant works on logic, physics, and theology.
He was deah on 1347 in Munich.
Umberto Eco, in his book, "The Name of the Rose", descript, Brother William of Baskerville is very similar to Sherlock Holmes and William Ockham.


"Elementary, my dear Adso" - William of Baskerville to his pupil, Adso of Melk

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