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Peter Abelard

1079 - 1142

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Peter Abelard (12 February 1079 – 21 April 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, leading logician, theologian, teacher, musician, composer, and poet. 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. Often referred to as the "Descartes of the twelfth century", he is considered a forerunner of Rousseau, Kant, and Spinoza. He is sometimes credited as a chief forerunner of modern empiricism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Abelard is the 73rd most popular philosopher (up from 87th in 2019), the 127th most popular biography from France (up from 162nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Philosopher.

Peter Abelard is most famous for his work as a philosopher and theologian in the 12th century. He was also a poet, mathematician, and a leading figure in the medieval intellectual movement known as scholasticism.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Peter Abelard ranks 73 out of 1,267. Before him are Zeno of Citium, Xenophanes, Gorgias, Ibn Arabi, Nagarjuna, and Pliny the Elder. After him are Leucippus, Edmund Husserl, Al-Kindi, Nicholas of Cusa, Rudolf Steiner, and Gregory of Nazianzus.

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Among people born in 1079, Peter Abelard ranks 1. After him are Kilij Arslan I, Judah Halevi, Gampopa, Yejong of Goryeo, Emperor Horikawa, and William II Jordan. Among people deceased in 1142, Peter Abelard ranks 1. After him are Yue Fei, Andronikos Komnenos, Godfrey II, Count of Louvain, Alexios Komnenos, Orderic Vitalis, and Elimar II, Count of Oldenburg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Peter Abelard ranks 127 out of 6,770. Before him are Philippe Pétain (1856), Catherine of Valois (1401), Joseph Fourier (1768), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Philip II of France (1165), and Charles Aznavour (1924). After him are Pope Gregory XI (1370), Marie Thérèse of France (1778), François Hollande (1954), Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708), Sully Prudhomme (1839), and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Peter Abelard ranks 7. Before him are René Descartes (1596), Montesquieu (1689), Auguste Comte (1798), Michel de Montaigne (1533), Michel Foucault (1926), and Henri Bergson (1859). After him are Roland Barthes (1915), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Jean Bodin (1530), Gilles Deleuze (1925), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), and Simone Weil (1909).

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