This can be the 1st complete examine of the philosophical achievements of twelfth-century Western Europe. it's the collaboration of fifteen students whose specified survey makes available the highbrow preoccupations of the interval, with all texts pointed out in English translation all through. After a dialogue of the cultural context of twelfth-century hypothesis, and a few of the most streams of inspiration - Platonic, Stoic, and Arabic - that quickened it, comes a characterisation of the hot difficulties and views of the interval, in clinical inquiry, speculative grammar, and common sense. this can be via a better exam of the unique gains of a few of the main cutting edge thinkers of the time, from Anselm and Abelard to the college of Chartres. a last part exhibits the influence of newly recovered works of Aristotle within the twelfth-century West.
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