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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, poet, composer and musician.

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.

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