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Episode 7: Expert Opinion - Peter Adamson

This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama

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Is There a Difference Between Medieval and Christian Philosophy?

People always think of mediaeval philosophy as this leand after ancient philosophy. But actually what you have is philosophy a proceeding through the antique world all the way up to late antiquity in the fall of the western roman empire. And then you have a kind of fragmentation into different languages, which get different pieces of the greek inheritance. Again, we see how these different time periods are sort of interwoven together,. from antiquity to the islamic world and so on, unto the christian world.

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