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Peter Abelard
Born: 1079, Nantes, France
Died: 21st April 1142, Abbey of Saint-Marcel-lès-Chalon, France
Nationality: French
Peter Abelard 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.
In Catholic theology, he is best known for his development of the concept of limbo, and his introduction of the moral influence theory of atonement.
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