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anshika

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John Scotus Erigena had an advantage over most of the European scholars of his time because
 
 

a. his enormous wealth gave him the leisure to study philosophy.
  b. he was not a Christian, so he was unbiased in his approach to philosophy.
  c. he was the only one to possess Aristotles original manuscripts.
  d. his knowledge of Greek allowed him to read Greek philosophical sources.



Question 2

In his work on the importance of philosophy, Boethius represented philosophy in the form of
 
 

a. the figure of Socrates.
  b. one of Aristotles disciples.
   c. a nurturing woman.
  d. a Stoic Roman soldier.




josephsuarez

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Answer to Question 1

d.

Answer to Question 2

c.



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