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Document Details : Title: The Traps of Realism Subtitle: The Debate over Universals in the Fifteenth Century and the Thomists of Cologne Author(s): NEGRI, Silvia Journal: Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales Volume: 79 Issue: 1 Date: 2012 Pages: 231-265 DOI: 10.2143/RTPM.79.1.2168983 Abstract : Fifteenth-century Thomists were deeply involved in the debate over the nature and mode of universals, which was at the core of the so-called Wegestreit in the late Middle Ages. Their solutions were intended to fill some theoretical gaps left by Thomas Aquinas, who, although he touched on the theme in his work, did not leave a systematic treatment of the topic. This paper investigates the opinions of the major Thomist masters of Cologne as found in their Commentaries on the De ente et essentia and in other sources. It aims to bring into focus the strategies by which those masters ‘canonized’ Aquinas’s doctrine, developing their own views in the process and differentiating them from the views of their institutional rivals. |
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