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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Many people would be surprised to be told that there were any great medi- eval thinkers. If a great thinker is one from whom we can learn today and if “medieval” serves as an adjective for describing anything which existed from (roughly) the years A.D. 600 to 1500 then-so it is often supposed-medi- eval thinkers cannot be called “great.” But why not? One answer often given appeals to ways in which medi- eval authors with a taste for argument and speculation tend to invoke “au- thorities” especially religious ones. Such invocation of authority is not the stuff of which great thought is made-so it is often said today. It is also fre- quently said that greatness is not to be found in the thinking of those who lived before the rise of modern science not to mention that of modern phi- losophy and theology. Students of science are nowadays hardly ever referred to literature earlier than the seventeenth century. Students of philosophy in the twentieth century have often been taught nothing about the history of ideas between Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) and Descartes (A.D. 1596-1650).