PHILOSOPHER

Peter Abelard

1079 - 1142

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Peter Abelard (; French: Pierre Abélard [abelaʁ]; Latin: Petrus Abaelardus or Abailardus; c. 1079 – 21 April 1142) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Abelard has received more than 1,520,020 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Peter Abelard is the 87th most popular philosopher (down from 65th in 2019), the 162nd most popular biography from France (down from 98th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Philosopher.

Peter Abelard is most famous for his work as a philosopher and theologian in the 12th century. He was also a poet, mathematician, and a leading figure in the medieval intellectual movement known as scholasticism.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Peter Abelard ranks 87 out of 1,267. Before him are Gregory of Nazianzus, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Mencius, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, John of Damascus, and Athanasius of Alexandria. After him are Theophrastus, Johann Gottfried Herder, Ibn Taymiyyah, Leucippus, Walter Benjamin, and Zhuang Zhou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1079, Peter Abelard ranks 1. After him are Kilij Arslan I, Judah Halevi, Yejong of Goryeo, Gampopa, Emperor Horikawa, and William II Jordan. Among people deceased in 1142, Peter Abelard ranks 1. After him are Yue Fei, Alexios Komnenos, Orderic Vitalis, Godfrey II, Count of Louvain, Elimar II, Count of Oldenburg, and Andronikos Komnenos.

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In France

Among people born in France, Peter Abelard ranks 162 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-François Millet (1814), Alfred Dreyfus (1859), Georges Pompidou (1911), Pierre Bourdieu (1930), François Viète (1540), and Jacques Cartier (1491). After him are Philip VI of France (1293), Pope Martin IV (1220), Théodore Géricault (1791), Jacques Cousteau (1910), Henry Cavendish (1731), and Jean Racine (1639).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Peter Abelard ranks 7. Before him are René Descartes (1596), Montesquieu (1689), Auguste Comte (1798), Michel Foucault (1926), Henri Bergson (1859), and Michel de Montaigne (1533). After him are Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Jean Bodin (1530), Roland Barthes (1915), Gilles Deleuze (1925), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), and Simone Weil (1909).

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