HIST-338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 53: Scholasticism, Pope John Xxii, Jean Buridan
24 Nov 2020
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Ockham"s theories, when coupled with his thoughts about god"s all-surpassing freedom from constraint, suggest the possibility that god could condemn to damnation those who have lived in and for. Christian truth could reward with eternal salvation those who spent their lives attacking and abusing that truth. Taken to their logical extremes, ockham"s ideas made human life senseless. In his defense, it is not at all clear that ockham intended his ideas to be taken to their logical extremes. His razor doctrine, insisted that one should progress from one idea or conclusion to another only when it is absolutely necessary to do so. What he wanted above all was to deflate the hyper-confidence of dominican scholasticism and to insist on intellectual modesty when confronting the mystery of life. But every book that flowed from his pen raised new suspicions about his orthodoxy and his loyalty to the church. Xxii (1316 1334) of being secretly a spiritual franciscan.
