
HoP 300b - The Relevance of Medieval Philosophy Today
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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What Is an Authoritative Passage?
The way that we should look at authority is less sort of a constriction on what later mediaeval or mediaeval thinkers could think, and more like the way data points function. So you can have an authority that can basily be thrown away. Even if it was easy figuring out what an authority to passit actually meant. Ss, is really nice quotation from the a twelfth century. I can't remember who said it, but authorities have noses of wax. You can bend them any way. And so in a way, the authoritative background was a spur, a motivation to be a little creative.
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