JONTENTS 
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Philosophy in the Dark Ages: Boethius, Pseudo-Dionvsius, Erigena 146 
Bocthius + Pseudo-Dionysius, The Arcopagite 
John Scotus Erivena 
Early Statements of Major Problems 
The Problem of Universals, Bocthius States Problem, 
‘Exaggerated Realism,” Nominalism, 
Conceptualism + Proving the Existence of God Anselm's 
Ontological Argument « Faith and Reason in Arabian 
and Jewish Thought + Avicenna. Averroes. Maimonides 
I'he Apex of Medieval Philosophy: The Scholastic System of 
St. Thomas Aquinas 
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His Life « Philosophy and Theology + Proofs of God's 
Existence © Knowledge of God's Nature = Creation + 
Morality and Natural Law + The State + 
Man and Knowledge » Some Reactions to Aquinas 
Voluntarism. Nominalism. and Mysticism 
PART THREE 
I'HE MODERN PERIOD: 
PHILOSOPHY AND THE UNFOLDING WORIL.D OF SCIENCE 
[0 The Renaissance Interlude 
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Early Elements + Erasmus and Luther - 
Machiavelli + Montaione « Science 
il Advocates of the Method of Science: Bacon and Hobbes 
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Francis Bucon  Distempers of Learning, Idols of the Mind, 
Inductive Method + Thomas Hobbes Influence of 
Geometry. Bodies in Motion Are Object of Thought. 
Mechanical View of Human Thought, Political 
Philosophy and Morality 
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Rationalism on the Continent: Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz 
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Descartes Methodic Doubt, Existence of Self. Criterion of 
Truth. Mind and Body * Spinoza Method, God. Substance