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3 12, 2016

History and the contingency of knowledge (Willard Dix, Forbes)

By |2016-12-02T09:09:12-05:00December 3rd, 2016|2016, Academia, business, Debate / dialogue, December, Everything Else, History, News, U.S. / Canada, Writing|0 Comments

History and contingency of knowledge: the ways that studying the past can teach us how we can better understand one another today. From the editorial: My introduction to the power of the liberal arts came in an undergraduate course studying the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.... Until then, I had assumed (as most high school students [...]

11 06, 2016

Freedom of thought in twelfth-century Paris

By |2016-11-02T11:52:11-04:00June 11th, 2016|2016, Academia, Everything Else, History, Literature, Philosophy, Quotes, science, Writing|0 Comments

Freedom of thought in twelfth-century Paris: how Latin learning (and love) left us a legacy of creative inquiry A good man asked the doctors of [twelfth-century] Paris if it were better to learn what one did not know or to apply what one knew, and when they approved the second, concluded upon them that they [...]

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