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This thinker rejected ethics as conformity to law by refuting an early version of Pascal’s Wager called the “Slave’s Wager.” A thought experiment in which one man wants to build a house for the poor but lacks the means while another has the desire and the means demonstrates this thinker’s intention-based ethics. This thinker argued that no real object can satisfy Boethius’s (“bo-EE-thee-uss’s”) criteria, and therefore ontological realism about (*) universals is incoherent. The questions of whether faith must be completed by reason and whether faith only deals with (-5[1])things unseen is explored in one book by this thinker. (-5[1])That book presents and resolves apparently contradictory theological statements from church fathers. For 10 points, name this scholastic philosopher who wrote Sic et Non, (10[1]-5[1])Héloïse’s (-5[1])(“ay-loh-EEZ’s”) lover. ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: Peter Abelard [or Pierre Abélard or Petrus Abaelardus]
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Michael WuSouthamptonLSE B86-5
Brendan BethlehemCambridge AWarwick C96-5
Albert NyangLSE ABristol12010
James ByrneBristolLSE A120-5
Owen IredaleImperial AImperial B121-5
Andy HuffLSE BSouthampton12310
Shiv SeshanCambridge BWarwick B12310
Josh HowarthWarwick CCambridge A1230