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The Medieval Church · 1273; unfinished

Collations on the Six Days

Collationes in Hexaemeron

Bonaventure · 1221–1274

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What it is

Lectures to the Paris friars warning that philosophy pursued for its own sake leads to error, broken off when their author was made a cardinal.

Why it lasted

The sharpest medieval warning against the autonomy of philosophy, delivered as the Aristotelian crisis at Paris came to a head.

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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