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Le combat d'Abélard

1988; CESCM; Volume: 31; Issue: 121 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3406/ccmed.1988.2395

2119-1026

Gilbert Boss,

Historical and Literary Studies

Was Abelard really the logician who lost himself in theological questions which had no great personal concern for him, except as far as he was comdemned for his bold and somewhat abstract speculations ? Was he the worldly man, the faked monk, who became notorious for his love for Eloise more than for the ardour of his piety ? The study of his thought in the Ethica, the Dialogus and the Historia calamitatum reveals on the contrary a great consistence in his search for the highest good, both as the purest ideal good and the concretely experimented one. If Abelard took in his youth the arms of dialectics, it nevertheless does not mean that he considered dialectics as the ultimate aim of his fight.