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Peter Abelard lived in like . . . I wanna say the 12th Century. or 13C He was a scholar of the first order he liked popping into classrooms where his colleagues were teaching, arguing with them, and then running onto the next classroom
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abelard's chef d'oeuvre was a little Treatise that he called, Sic et Non which translates into the global vernacular as Yes and No
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Abelard existed in the high-to-late Medieval era when the church was truly at the height of its power so you know he couldn't really fucking say what he thought lest he end up Purged so he found a Novel way of expressing himself, perhaps heretically
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Sic et Non was an exercise in Fun in this work, Abelard presented a statement--a question of theology and then, he answered it in two ways. Sic et Non he gave the best answers he was able, from each side
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Abelard is one of my favorites. He used logic to slice up the very air he breathed.
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Think the most I've read about him directly so far has been in Chesterton's Aquinas bio.
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I mean, things did not exactly work out well for him.
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Getting brought down by Horny, tale as old as time
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