Council for British Research in the Levant

The Classification of Ignorance and Its Challenges: A Comparative Review of Pre-modern and Contemporary Traditions

Ignorance, unlike many subjects that humanity has taken seriously, has not yet found a shared language for classifying its own types. This paper reviews the efforts made so far to distinguish types of ignorance: from pre-modern distinctions in the Greek, Roman, Jewish, Islamic, C...

The Classification of Ignorance and Its Challenges: A Comparative Review of Pre-modern and Contemporary Traditions

Ignorance, unlike many subjects that humanity has taken seriously, has not yet found a shared language for classifying its own types. This paper reviews the efforts made so far to distinguish types of ignorance: from pre-modern distinctions in the Greek, Roman, Jewish, Islamic, C...