He was a Franciscan friar and philosopher English born in Ockham, a small village of Surrey, near East Horsley. As Franciscan, William was dedicated to a very poor life.
HIS LIFE:
Ockham joined the Franciscan Order being still very young and he was educated firstly in the Franciscan house of London and then in Oxford. He did not manage to end his studies in Oxford but during this time it is when he wrote the majority of philosophical works.
He was called to Aviñón by the papa Juan XXII accused of "herejía", and there I pass four years under domiciliary arrest while his educations and writings were investigated.Ockham studied the controversy between the Franciscans and the Papado on the doctrine of the apostolic poverty. Later Ockham said that the Papa Juan XXII was a "hereje" and this opinion defended it in his work.
He died on 9th of april on 1347 in the Franciscan convent of munich for the disease of the Black Death.
WORKS:
-Scriptum in quatuor libros Sententiarum.
-Questiones earumque decisiones.
-Tractatus contra Benedictum.
CREDITS:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_de_Ockham
http://www.iep.utm.edu/o/ockham.htm
http://images.google.es/images?hl=es&q=william%20ockham&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
HIS LIFE:
Ockham joined the Franciscan Order being still very young and he was educated firstly in the Franciscan house of London and then in Oxford. He did not manage to end his studies in Oxford but during this time it is when he wrote the majority of philosophical works.
He was called to Aviñón by the papa Juan XXII accused of "herejía", and there I pass four years under domiciliary arrest while his educations and writings were investigated.Ockham studied the controversy between the Franciscans and the Papado on the doctrine of the apostolic poverty. Later Ockham said that the Papa Juan XXII was a "hereje" and this opinion defended it in his work.
He died on 9th of april on 1347 in the Franciscan convent of munich for the disease of the Black Death.
WORKS:
-Scriptum in quatuor libros Sententiarum.
-Questiones earumque decisiones.
-Tractatus contra Benedictum.
CREDITS:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_de_Ockham
http://www.iep.utm.edu/o/ockham.htm
http://images.google.es/images?hl=es&q=william%20ockham&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
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