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medieval philosophy
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...medieval philosophy: see scholasticism....
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Middle Ages
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...Middle Ages, period in Western European history...from the turbulent events of the Early Middle Ages and the rebirth of culture in the later...entered the period known as the High Middle Ages, the church became the universal and...writings had not survived in Europe. Philosophy, ......
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philosophy
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......the later schools of Greek philosophy, such as the Sophists, the...Averroës, preserved Greek philosophy, especially Aristotelianism...forgotten in Europe.The Middle Ages to the Nineteenth CenturyScholasticism...the high achievement of medieval philosophy, was based on Aristotelian......
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scholasticism
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......Christendom in the Middle Ages. Virtually all medieval...theologians, and their philosophy is generally embodied...philosophies in the Middle Ages, but basic to all...knowledge of ancient philosophy came to the early...the golden age of medieval philosophy. It was ......
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Boethius
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......philosophiae (tr. The Consolation of Philosophy). His treatise on ancient music...His works served to transmit Greek philosophy to the early centuries of the Middle Ages. See H. F. Stewart, Boethius...Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy (1981); E. Reiss, Boethius (1982......
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Salamanca (city, Spain)
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......1218) of its university by Alfonso IX. The university soon rivaled Bologna, Paris, and Oxford, and it made Arabic philosophy available to the Western world. In the late Middle Ages and throughout the Renaissance, Salamanca was the center of Christian Spanish cultural life and the fountainhead of......
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anarchism
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......business corporations. Zeno of Citium, founder of Stoic philosophy, is regarded as the father of anarchism. In the Middle Ages the anarchist tradition was closely linked to utopian...13th cent. and the Anabaptists of the 16th cent. The philosophy of modern political anarchism was outlined in the ......
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courtly love
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...courtly love, philosophy of love and code of lovemaking that flourished in France and England during the Middle Ages. Although its origins are obscure, it probably derived from the works of Ovid, various Middle Eastern ideas popular at the time......
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nominalism
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...nominalism, in philosophy, a theory of the relation between universals and particulars. Nominalism gained its name in the Middle Ages, when it was contrasted with realism. The problem arises...Nominalism is appropriate to materialist and empirical philosophy and hence has been popular in modern ......
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Huizinga, Johan
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......history of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance...classic The Waning of the Middle Ages (tr. 1924) deals...Renaissance the death of the Middle Ages rather than the birth...and essays on the philosophy of history. In World......