See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
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 (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
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
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
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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