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WILLIAM OF [GULIELMUS CAMPELLENSIS] See also:CHAMPEAUX (C. 1070-1121)  , See also:French philosopher and theologian was See also:born at See also:Champeaux near See also:Melun . After studying under See also:Anselm of See also:Laon and See also:Roscellinus, he taught in the school of the See also:cathedral of Notre See also:Dame, of which he was made See also:canon in 1103 . Among his pupils was See also:Abelard . In i io8 he retired into the See also:abbey of St See also:Victor, where he resumed his lectures . He afterwards became See also:bishop of Chalons-sur-See also:Marne, and took See also:part in the dispute concerning investitures as a supporter of See also:Calixtus II., whom he represented at the See also:conference of Mousson . His only printed See also:works are a fragment on the See also:Eucharist (inserted by See also:Jean See also:Mabillon in his edition of the works of St See also:Bernard), and the Moralia Abbreviata and De Origine Animae (in'E . Martene's See also:Thesaurus novas Anecdotorum, 1717, vol . 5) . In the last of these he maintains that See also:children who See also:die unbaptized must be lost, the pure soul being defiled by the grossness of the See also:body, and declares that See also:God's will is not to be questioned . He upholds the theory of Creatianism (that a soul is specially created for each human being) . Ravaisson-See also:Mollien has discovered a number of fragments by him, among which the most important is the De Essentia Dei et de Substantia Dei; a See also:Liber Sententiarum, consisting of discussions on See also:ethics and Scriptural See also:interpretation, is also ascribed to Champeaux . He is reputed the founder of See also:Realism .

For his views and his controversy with Abelard, see See also:

SCHOLASTICISM and ABELARD . See Victor See also:Cousin, introduction to his Ouvrages inedits d'Abelard (1836), and Fragments pour servir a l'histoire de la philosophie (1865) ; G . A . Patru, Wilhelmi Campellensis de natura et de origin rerum placita (1847); E . See also:Michaud, See also:Guillaume de Champeaux et See also:les ecoles de See also:Paris au XII' siecle (2nd ed., 1868); " See also:William of Champeaux and his Times " in See also:Christian Observer, lxxii . 843; B . See also:Haureau, De la philosophic scolastique (Paris, 1850) ; Opuscula in J . P . See also:Migne's Patrologia, clxiii .

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