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@ TELEGRAM: “CONSTANT AND FREQUENT QUESTIONING IS THE FIRST KEY TO WISDOM … FOR THROUGH DOUBTING WE ARE LED TO INQUIRE, AND BY INQUIRY WE PERCEIVE THE TRUTH.“ PETER ABELARD PETER ABELARD WAS A MEDIEVAL FRENCH SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHER, LEADING LOGICIAN, THEOLOGIAN, POET, COMPOSER AND MUSICIAN. IN PHILOSOPHY HE IS CELEBRATED FOR HIS LOGICAL SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF UNIVERSALS VIA NOMINALISM AND CONCEPTUALISM AND HIS PIONEERING OF INTENT IN ETHICS. IN HISTORY AND POPULAR CULTURE, HE IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS PASSIONATE AND TRAGIC LOVE AFFAIR, AND INTENSE PHILOSOPHICAL EXCHANGE, WITH HIS BRILLIANT STUDENT AND EVENTUAL WIFE, HÉLOÏSE D'ARGENTEUIL. HE WAS A DEFENDER OF WOMEN AND OF THEIR EDUCATION. IN CATHOLIC THEOLOGY, HE IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF LIMBO, AND HIS INTRODUCTION OF THE MORAL INFLUENCE THEORY OF ATONEMENT. HE IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT FORERUNNER OF THE MODERN SELF-REFLECTIVE AUTOBIOGRAPHER. HE PAVED THE WAY AND SET THE TONE FOR LATER EPISTOLARY NOVELS AND CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS WITH HIS PUBLICLY DISTRIBUTED LETTER, THE HISTORY OF MY CALAMITIES, AND PUBLIC CORRESPONDENCE. IN LAW, ABELARD STRESSED THAT, BECAUSE THE SUBJECTIVE INTENTION DETERMINES THE MORAL VALUE OF HUMAN ACTION, THE LEGAL CONSEQUENCE OF AN ACTION IS RELATED TO THE PERSON THAT COMMITS IT AND NOT MERELY TO THE ACTION. WITH THIS DOCTRINE, ABELARD CREATED IN THE MIDDLE AGES THE IDEA OF THE INDIVIDUAL SUBJECT CENTRAL TO MODERN LAW. #historyandphilosophy #innabesedina #education #philosophy #peterabelard #abelard #theology #conceptualism #selfdevelopment #problemofuniversals #medievalphilosophy #westernphilosophy #scholasticism #metaphysics #philosophyoflanguage #philosophyofreligion #selfeducation #knowledge #wisdom #psychology #logic #cognition #studying #interesting #beautifulthoughts #philosophical #philosophicalthoughts #thoughts #educational #educationalvideo 00:00 PETER ABELARD 02:16 PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT 03:28 THEOLOGY 04:12 PSYCHOLOGY
