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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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Sicetnon's Theology of Reason

Sic etnon summed up the array of open, ambiguous questions that still had to be addressed without putting forward definite right answers. And it helped to kind of blow open the scholastic conversation. The first five questions in sic etnon were, one, must human faith be completed by reason or not? Later on, he asks a about whether god is all powerful. Can god do anything ande thing or not? Is it possible to resist god, or not? So these are the sort of hard questions that abelard spurred on, and that were taken up and grappled with by later philosophers.

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