Reading Letters to Bernard of Arezzo | Alexandria
Read Letters to Bernard of Arezzo by Nicholas of Autrecourt. Shattering medieval certainty, Nicholas's radical letters expose how little we truly know, challenging Bernard's blind faith in reason. His proto-skepticism eerily anticipates quantum uncertainty, suggesting that even "obvious" cause-effect relationships could be illusions. Six centuries later, his core question still haunts us: Can we ever be completely sure of anything?