Willy of ockham

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William of Ockham was born between 1280 and 1288. He was born in a small town of Surrey near the East Horsley. Like he was a franciscan he was very poor.

He died in 1349.

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His Life

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William studied in Oxford but he doesn't finish, he leave the studies and he started to write Philosophical and theological books. On 1324 he was four years under domiciliary arrest because the Papa Juan XXII condemned him.

In 1324 he also taught philosophy in a franciscan school in Avignon, but it made to Willy to had more enemies between his academic competitions as Tomás de Aquino.

Before to wait the opinion about the heresy of his philosophy, Willyam fled of Avignon on 26 of May 1328 and he went to Pisa with Miguel de Cesena and another friars. At the end They won the protection of the emperor Luis IV of Baviera. After all Willyam was excommunicated but his philosophy will never die.

He passed the rest of his life writing about politic things, including topics about temporary and spiritual things.

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His works

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Philosophy:

• Scriptum in quatuor libros Sententiarum (1318 - 1323).
• Expositio aurea super totam artem veterem (after 1318).
• Tractatus de praedestinatione et praescientia Dei et de futuris contingentibus (1318-1323).
• Logica maior o Summa logicae (1324 - 1328).
• Elementarium logicae o Logica media.
• Logicae tractatus minor
• Philosophia naturalis sive summulae in octo libros physicorum, (1324).

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Religion:

• Questiones earumque decisiones
• Quodlibeta septem (1327).
• Tractatus de corpore Christi o Tractatus primus de quantitate (1323).
• Tractatus de Sacramento Altaris o Tractatus secundus de quantitate (1323).

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Politic:

• Opus nonaginta dierum (1330-1332).
• De dogmatibus papae Johannis XXII
• Tractatus contra Benedictum
• An princeps, pro suo succursu, scilet guerrae, possit recipere bona ecclesiarum, etiam invito papa (1338 - 1339)
• Epistola defensoria

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Credits:

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• Pisa
• Luis IV of Baviera
• Surrey
• Oxford
• Juan XXII
• Miguel de Cesena
• Avignon
• domiciliary arrest

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