The River of Ideas

400 – 1400

The Middle Ages

For a thousand years, philosophy in Europe wrestled with a single problem: how to fit reason together with faith. Thinkers like Augustine and Aquinas built vast systems trying to prove that the two need not collide.


Augustine & Aquinas400–1400 ADFor 1,000 years, thinkers tried to fit Greek philosophy together with faith.
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