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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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