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    Heymeric de Campo — Carmelics
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    Heymeric de Campo

    medievalLate Scholasticism, Albertism

    1395 – 1460

    Heymeric de Campo (c. 1395–1460) was a Flemish scholastic philosopher and theologian who taught at the University of Cologne and became one of the most prominent representatives of the Albertist tradition in the Rhineland. He synthesized the metaphysics of Albert the Great with Neoplatonic and Lullist elements, and is best known as a teacher and intellectual influence on Nicholas of Cusa.

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    Leading proponent of Albertism at the University of Cologne in the fifteenth century

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    Major transmitter of Ramon Llull's combinatorial logic and mystical theology into the German scholastic tradition

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    Teacher and formative influence on Nicholas of Cusa (Cusanus)

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    Synthesized Pseudo-Dionysian Neoplatonism with Aristotelian metaphysics in works such as the Ars demonstrativa

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    Contributed to debates on universals and the intellect drawing on Albert the Great against Thomist and nominalist rivals

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    Philosophy of Language

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    Lefèvre used mathematics to clarify and exemplify Aristotelian physical concepts rather than to make natural philosophy mathematical.

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    Lefèvre used mathematics to clarify and exemplify Aristotelian physical concepts rather than to make natural philosophy mathematical.

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    medieval

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    Late Scholasticism, Albertism

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