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Middle Ages 9: Knowledge and Ignorance in the Middle Ages (and Today)

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Philosophy of the Schools

A lot of this material was coming from the islamic world, which had preserved a much greater a share of ancient knowledge. The process of debate that scholars adopted to try to work out these contradictions and to try to settle on a consensous understanding of the ancient wisdom came to be called a scholasticism. It's essentially a a philosophy of disputation, a philosophy of examining disagreements and searching for reconciliation among them.

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