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Peter Abelard Research Paper

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Peter Abelard was born on 1079 as the eldest son of a lesser nobility in La Pallet in Brittany. At around 1092, Abelard gave up his family inheritance and knighthood at around the age of 13, to pursue a philosophical education with the greatest philosophical and theological minds of his day who were Anselm of Laon, Roscelin of Compiegne, and William of Champeaux. In 1102, Abelard set up his first school at Melun. Abelard ran his school successfully for two years until he was forced to return to Brittany due to ill health. But in 1108, Abelard returned to Paris, France to study with his old teacher William and in between 1108 and 1110 Abelard and William had their famous debate over the nature of universals with Abelard besting his teacher

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