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Peter Abelard (/ ˈ æ b ə l ɑːr d /; French: Pierre Abélard; Latin: Petrus Abaelardus or Abailardus; 12 February 1079 – 21 April 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, leading logician, theologian, poet, composer and musician.
The Philosophy of Peter Abelard. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511582714. Otten, Willemien (2005). "In Conscience's Court: Abelard's Ethics as a Science of the Self". Virtue and Ethics in the Twelfth Century. Brill. pp. 53– 74. ISBN 9789004143272. Porter, Jean (2000). "Responsibility, Passion, and Sin: A Reassessment of Abelard's Ethics".
The moral influence or moral example theory of atonement, developed or most notably propagated by Abelard (1079–1142), [1] [2] [note 1] is an alternative to Anselm's satisfaction theory of atonement. [1] Abelard focused on changing man's perception of God as not offended, harsh, and judgmental, but as loving. [1]
French philosophy, here taken to mean philosophy in the French language, has been extremely diverse and has influenced Western philosophy as a whole for centuries, from the medieval scholasticism of Peter Abelard, through the founding of modern philosophy by René Descartes, to 20th century philosophy of science, existentialism, phenomenology, structuralism, and postmodernism.
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise are a series of passionate and intellectual correspondences written in Latin during the 12th century. The authors, Peter Abelard, a prominent theologian, and his pupil, Heloise, a gifted young woman later renowned as an abbess, exchanged these letters following their ill-fated love affair and subsequent monastic lives.
Ethics is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. Ethics may also refer to: Ethics, a text on ethics by Peter Abelard; Ethics (Bonhoeffer book), an unfinished book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, published in 1949; Ethics, a quarterly philosophical journal