Social Sciences and History / Unit 3 SSH 0237 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Scholasticism and the Return of Aristotle
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The idea
Literacy, about one percent around ten fifty, rose as cathedral schools multiplied. Aristotle's logic, preserved in the Arab world, reached Latin through Jewish translators in Spain and later through Byzantine Greeks.
In practice
Formal logic applied to theology: scholasticism.
Where people slip
The anchor rejects the label of a dark age. Corruption in the Church and real scholarship inside it coexisted.
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