Middle Ages
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fettered traders of the Middle Ages · mediaeval · mediaeval philosophy · medieval
in the texts
The Communist Manifesto
The medieval period characterized by restricted trade, invoked as the historical contrast that gives bourgeois freedom its meaning.
This talk about free selling and buying, and all the other “brave words” of our bourgeoisie about freedom in general, have a meaning, if any, only in contrast with restricted selling and buying, with the fettered traders of the Middle Ages, but have no meaning when opposed to the Communistic abolition of buying and selling, of the bourgeois conditions of production, and of the bourgeoisie itself.
History of Modern Philosophy from Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time
The historical era characterized by scholastic and religious philosophy that modern philosophy defined itself against.
When we turn to the character of mediaeval thinking;
the period of ferment between the Middle Ages and modern times lasted almost two centuries.
These may be most conveniently described by comparing them with the characteristics of ancient and of mediaeval philosophy.