... authorities reigned supreme as the ultimate source of knowledge about what was right and what was wrong. This, however, in the age of Christian humanist thought, was challenged by two writers in particular, Francois Rabelais and Michel de Montaigne. In their writings, they criticize European acceptance of dogma and what modern thinkers would today term "book knowledge,"" or learning without thinking carefully ... exemplary of the importance of understanding that learning who you are and gaining the sense of what is right and wrong through truth and reason is very gradual. Throughout Gar...

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