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Episode 7: Expert Opinion - Peter Adamson

This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama

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The Impact of Aristotelian Philosophy in Latin Christendom

The impact on intellectual life latin christendom, of thes islamic thinkers was huge. Avisena and verois as the most important guides to this material. Verois here is a more straight forward guide, because he actually just wrote these long commentaries on aristotle. They were translated into latin, into hebrew and so on. And they are very, very influential. The way that mediaeval philosophy unfolded, in the thirteenth century especially, is unimaginable without this contact with the islamic world.

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