Paris Masters of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries and Ideas of Intellectual Freedom

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ID3595096
AuthorsMary Martin Mclaughlin (University of Nebraska–Lincoln, corresponding author)
Year1955
Volume24
Issue3
Pages195-211
Publication date1955-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChurch History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3162111
OpenAlexW2011361734
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited9

To introduce the theme of this essay, there are few statements more fitting than the caustic judgment of Albertus Magnus on those whom he considered the enemies of freedom in his day. Reproaching the petty obscurantism of the opponents of Aristotle's philosophy, he described these men, whose sole aim in reading books was to find something to condemn, as stagnant themselves in intellectual inertia, and seeking always to paralyze others into their own state. It was men like these, he said, who killed Socrates, and whose plots forced Aristotle to leave Athens with the words, "I shall not give the Athenians a second chance of sinning against philosophy." In the world of learning, according to Albertus, such bitter, bilious men are like the liver in the body; "they try to inject their own bitterness into everyone else, and to prevent others from pursuing truth in the sweetness of society

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