is common between impostors and tomfoolery talk about his position as a heterodoxy, presenting it as an "alternative science" that is revealed to the realistic dogmatism "official" science "never understood what they mean with that" official "- defender of materialism, rationalism, scientism, corseted, inquisitorial, guilty of all evils in the world.
The story rather the opposite: it was the naturalist and materialist vision of the world's heterodox, which he has always been possible, has rebelled against the prevailing idealism advocated by religion and other branches of government, always paying consequences. This is the case of Nicholas of Autrecourt a theologian and philosopher born in medieval France.
copied below some interesting excerpts from the "History of materialist philosophies" of Charbonnat:
"After studying theology, Nicholas Autrecourt (1295/1298-1369) became professor of the Faculty of Arts Paris. At the initiative of Benedict XII, papal justice so importunate in 1340, calling him to Avignon immediately after the publication of his treatise exigent Ordo. must respond to the positions taken before a commission that examines each of their texts. Examination hard inquisitorial six years, during which Nicholas is imprisoned. Finally retracts and agree to condemn some of the propositions extracted from his works and their courses. On November 20, 1347, sentencing is: you are forbidden to reside and teach in Paris, is sentenced to burn his work and loses his title of professor of theology. Ends its life in Metz, held, as dean of the cathedral chapter. Catholic censorship has left us only a few of his texts: the philosophical treatise exigent Ordo (begun around 1330), a dispute over the beatific vision, and three letters of correspondence. The exigent Ordo
explicitly challenge, through the arguments of materialism old creationist dogma. Not content with putting in doubt a sly form a creation ex nihilo evoking the eternity of the world, to demonstrate the impossibility, both logical and ontological, that produces non-self being. "
" The truth is In any case, this maverick defends a material almost identical to that of antiquity. Ultimately depends on two assumptions, one ontological and other software, which together tend to show that "nothing, nothing comes up." Unfortunately, the attempt remains isolated and easily aborted because of the expeditious enforcement of the church. The philosopher seems to produce an overflow materialist quickly frustrated and have no future. Its suppression shows, a contrario, that the emergence of a current follower of the old materialism is impossible in the ideological context of this time (and a fortiori a current innovative materials). Heterodox materialism, durable and practical, it is therefore impossible for the clergy suppresses any tendency of independence. "
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