Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This video in the Makers of the Modern World series explores the teaching of the late medieval scholastic theologian John Duns Scotus. While he precedes modernity by quite some time, many have argued that Scotus's views mark the first clear departure from the classical Greek/Christian synthesis which the West relied on since the beginning of Christianity toward a new set of problems and questions.

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