Identifier: sciliteratur00jaco (find matches)
Title: Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Renaissance Science, Medieval Literature, Medieval
Publisher: London : Bickers and Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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youth with the Dominican Friars at Guildford, herepaired to Paris, where he found more scope for expounding his doctrine ofnominalism. At first he had upheld the realist doctrines of his master,but the force of logic drove him into the ojjposite camp. His system is bestdescribed in the words of M. Haureau, who says that Williamof Ockham,by an analysis of the faculty of knowledge, saw that it was seconded by theintuitive, which we call perception, and by the abstractive, which ^ye callabstraction. With these two energies correspond the simple ideas whichthe vie^^ of tangible objects affords us, and the compound ideas whichthe intelligence forms by comparison, by abstraction. William of Ockhamfurther demonstrated that the realists, having misapprehended human intelli-gence in its manner of being and its manner of action, had fallen into a pro-found error in their definition of Divine InteUigence. God is the name of themystery; everybody can see and judge his works; nobody can appreciate
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HE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD AND THE WEIGHING OF SOUI.S IN THE BALANCE, AT THE LAST JUDGMENT. Mitiialure Irnn Uio Psoller oC St Louis, M.S. of tlio xiii cpnturj, forming part of the treasure in theablji-y of Poissy; n 117 T. L. Arsenal Library, Paris. PHILOSOPHIC SCIE.XCES. 65 the nature of God. Realism, therefore, has committed a grave and dangerouserror in attempting to exjjlain the nature of Divine ideas. God imaginedthe world before creating it: St. Augustine has stated this ; but is it necessaryto go an) further. Why people the thought of God with efr/niiiftt, andii)tc//ir/ib/cf!, and spiritual atoms ? To credit God himself with all theseimaginary things, does not this imply the placing of limits and bounds uponhis omnipotent will, and submitting Him, by analogy, to the same conditions

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