![]() He was a defender of women and of their education. In history and popular culture, he is best known for his passionate and tragic love affair, and intense philosophical exchange, with his brilliant student and eventual wife, Héloïse d'Argenteuil. He is sometimes credited as a chief forerunner of modern empiricism. Often referred to as the " Descartes of the twelfth century", he is considered a forerunner of Rousseau, Kant, and Spinoza. In philosophy he is celebrated for his logical solution to the problem of universals via nominalism and conceptualism and his pioneering of intent in ethics. 1079 – 21 April 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, leading logician, theologian, poet, composer and musician. Peter Abelard ( / ˈ æ b ə l ɑːr d/ French: Pierre Abélard Latin: Petrus Abaelardus or Abailardus c. ![]() ![]() ![]() John of Salisbury, William of Ockham, Arnold of Brescia ![]()
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