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TODAY reason has come to be seen as something exercised by an individual, but it wasn’t always so. Until the early Middle Ages, being “reasonable” was primarily a matter of being aware of where you belonged in the cosmos. As a human being you were capable, unlike other creatures, of knowing who you were. You knew that you were given the task of using your freedom of choice to act coherently, in accordance with the whole flow of the universe or, more simply, the creative will of God.
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