Peter Abaelard was famous for which ethical concept?
Nominalism and conceptualism
Positivism
Nihilism
Existentialism
Answer
Peter Abelard was famous for his theories on nominalism and conceptualism. Nominalism is the belief that universals are not real, but only names for collections of individual objects. Conceptualism is the belief that universals are real, but only exist in the mind. Abelard argued that both nominalism and conceptualism have problems, and that the truth lies somewhere in between.
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