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[from 'talk' by Martin Luther, in 1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought ]

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 Reference

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.