We must conclude that the Reformation was not so much a reaction to Scholasticism wholesale, but to this “decayed” Scholasticism exhibited in figures like Scotus, Ockham, and Biel, who strayed from patristic commitments….
I think Ockham was simply trying to make a name for himself. I can't believe he actually believed some of that while claiming to be a Christian. Did he really think that shared particulars aren't universals? That is the whole idea, to make a definition based on all the shared particulars of a class of objects.
It does seem strange to me. Even the idea that God made man - in every way, we understand that this means all men and all women, that they all share commonalities to the man that God made.
Otherwise would it mean that we have to test each humanoid being one by one to decide if it was appropriate for us to love them as our neighbor?
I think Ockham was simply trying to make a name for himself. I can't believe he actually believed some of that while claiming to be a Christian. Did he really think that shared particulars aren't universals? That is the whole idea, to make a definition based on all the shared particulars of a class of objects.
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It does seem strange to me. Even the idea that God made man - in every way, we understand that this means all men and all women, that they all share commonalities to the man that God made.
Otherwise would it mean that we have to test each humanoid being one by one to decide if it was appropriate for us to love them as our neighbor?