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Jacques Maritain Center: St. Thomas Aquinas and Medieval Philosophy: IV |
 | | In the thirteenth century intellectual progress, under the guidance of faith, had reached that point where it could be said with truth: "Reason could go no higher; faith could not receive more numerous or stronger arguments from reason to explain and defend her dogmas." |
 | | The eleventh century was noted for the disputes on the nature of the Universals, with the Nominalism of Roscelin, the exaggerated Realism of William of Champeaux, and the moderate Realism of St. Anselm, who also established the true principles on which reason should be proceed in her inquiries into the mysteries of revealed religion. |
 | | Averroes, the son of an Arabian physician, was born at Cordova, in the beginning of the twelfth century. |
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