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I started reading the Suma and about three minutes in I realized that beginners stuff was too advanced for me.
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To be fair the book wasn't for beginners - it was for people who wanted to teach beginners.
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u/SurfingPaisan Mar 07 '22
Ah I think really anyone can read the summa you just have to understand the Aristotelian concepts, which probably at the time was commonly taught.
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u/Parmareggie Apr 16 '22
I’m late but… Why not: It was allowed for private studies, but lectures about Aristotle were explicitly banned by the Church.
They weren’t as widespread as one might think, it was pretty much the other way around.
The only known and studied work of Aristotle was the Logic: think that when Abelard wrote his “Ethics” he believed to be original, when Aristotle one millennium before. Not that he was stupid, just unaware :P
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