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Peter Abelard

Peter Abelard was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. His affair with and love for Heloise d'Argenteuil has become legendary. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as the keenest thinker and boldest theologian of the 12th Century. 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. Often referred to as the "Descartes of the twelfth century", he is considered a forerunner of Rousseau, Kant, and Spinoza.

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