In a sense, the West had returned to many of the fundamental questions with which the ancient Greeks had wrestled: What is reality? What are people seeking to know and experience, and how will they know when they encounter it? Can humans perceive reality itself as opposed to its reflections? If so, how? What does it mean to be and to know? Unencumbered by tradition—or at least believing they were justified in interpreting it anew—scholars and philosophers once again investigated these questions. The minds that set out on this journey were willing to walk a precarious path, risking the apparent
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