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Excerpt listing some specific bans on Aristotle's works. From page 71-72 of Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages, by Edward Grant. "The struggle against Aristotle was concentrated in the University of Paris and its environs. In 1210, soon after Aristotle's works in natural philosophy had become available in Latin, the provincial synod of Sens decreed that the books of Aristotle on natural philosophy and all commentaries thereon were not to be read at Paris in public or secret, under penalty of excommunication. [...] The ban on Aristotle's books on natural philosophy at Paris was in effect for approximately forty years, until 1255 at the latest. (It appears that only Aristotle's ethical and logical works were publicly taught at Paris; despite the public and private ban, the physical and philosophical works were probably read privately.) [...] in March 1277, Tempier, acting on the advice of his theological advisers, issued a massive condemnation of 219 propositions. [...] Most of the 219 articles condemned in 1277 reflected issues that were directly associated with Aristotle's natural philosophy, and, therefore, their condemnation formed part of the reception of Aristotelian learning. [...]The dispute is apparent in at least three major controversies, which involved (1) the eternity of the world, (2) the so-called doctrine of the double truth, and (3) God's absolute power. Interdisciplinary friction between theologians and natural philosophers was compounded by intradisciplinary rivalries among the theologians themselves." |
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