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HoP 355 - Town and Gown - Italian Universities

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Fetishization of Latin

The social standing of eloquent Latin was very high in medieval Europe, writes Andrew Keen. Keen: Aristotelians were increasingly deciding that they didn't care about vernacular languages. What matters is the truth of the ideas expressed, not the way they are expressed, he says. In 1547 Antonio Treda Palais published the first logical textbook in vernacular philosophy.

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