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Paul Strathern

Paul Strathern (born 1940) is a British writer and academic. He was born in London, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, after which he served in the Merchant Navy over a period of two years. He then lived on a Greek island. In 1966 he travelled overland to India and the Himalayas. His novel A Season in Abyssinia won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1972.Besides five novels, he has also written numerous books on science, philosophy, history, literature, medicine and economics.
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Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
Early in the Christian era, philosophy fell asleep. These slumbers eventually produced the philosophic dream known as Scholasticism, based on Aristotle and the teachings of the church.
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    Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
    They soon responded to Descartes’s rational claim by insisting that our knowledge is not based on reason but on experience.
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      Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
      these British empiricists soon destroyed all semblance of reason – reducing philosophy to a series of ever-diminishing sensations. Philosophy was in danger of going to sleep again.
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