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Full Idea
Aristotle is a buffoon who has misled the Church.
Gist of Idea
Aristotle is a buffoon who has misled the Church
Source
report of Martin Luther (talk [1525]) by Alasdair MacIntyre - A Short History of Ethics Ch.10
Book Ref
MacIntyre,Alasdair: 'A Short History of Ethics' [Routledge 1967], p.122
A Reaction
Before he became famous, Luther was a university lecturer on Aristotle. This remark was a hundred years before philosophers began serious criticism of Aristotle. Presumably Protestants just stopped reading him.
| 8011 | Aristotle is a buffoon who has misled the Church [Luther, by MacIntyre] |
| 6609 | With respect to religion, reason is a blind whore [Luther] |