Pierre Abélard cité par Harjeet Singh Gill

dans Signification in Buddhist and French Traditions, Harman, Isbn : 81 86622 44 6, 2001

"In other words, Pierre Abélard is the foremost representative of the new emerging thought that administers an epistemological cut on the philosophical tradition since Saint Augustine. He is the first modern intellectual who is literally the founder of the Latin Quarter and all that it represents in critical, intellectual, cultural tradition in thought and action. He is the first professor of modernity as asserts Jacques Le Goff.
For us, with his theory of Conceptualism, Abélard is the founder of a French intellectual tradition that has, thoughout is eight hundred years of history, stayed away from both English empiricism and German idealism. This middle path inaugurated by Abélard is the most distinctive feature of this tradition.", p. 11