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Scholasticism: personalities and problems of medieval...

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In this book Pieper talks about philosophers from Boethius to William of Ockham. I agree with his definition of the middle ages such that Augustine is excluded, and instead defining a Christian period in antiquity to which Augustine belonged.

Pieper writes, "It remains, then, a historical fact that `barbarian' peoples made themselves at home in a house they had not themselves built. And this fact makes more comprehensible an otherwise troublesome discord which from the very beginning- especially, at the beginning- characterized medieval philosophy.... But on the other hand, it is true that the incorporation of something not sprung from native soil, the acquisition of both a foreign vocabulary and a different mode of thinking, the assimilation of a tremendous body of existing thought- that all that was in fact the problem which confronted medieval philosophy at its beginnings, and which it had to master. In the very act of mastering it, medieval philosophy acquired its own character."

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189.4 PIE s

Z. HANDIMAN

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189.4 PIE s

Publisher

South Bend : St. Augustine Press., 2001

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192p.; 22 cm.

Language

English

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1-58731-750-8

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189.4

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SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY

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