The Idea That Excessive Deference to Authority Was a Cause

question 35

Multiple Choice

The idea that excessive deference to authority was a cause of ignorance was held by

• A) the Parisian professor Siger of Brabant.
• B) the Franciscan monk Roger Bacon.
• C) the Nestorian scholar Rabban Bar Sauma.
• D) the Dominican monk Thomas Aquinas.

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