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Today's episode, Binding Arbitration, Robert Kilwardby.

As a wise man once said, the solution to a problem with Aristotle is always more Aristotle.

Okay, it wasn't actually a wise man, it was me in episode 159 talking about my monities

is ethics. But as a philosopher, I am at least striving to be wise and it's only to be expected

that my monities and any other medieval philosopher would strive to answer objections to

Aristotelian philosophy by using the resources of that philosophy.

Of course fighting fire with fire is a high-risk strategy, and in the case of my monities it led

to the burning of his works. Again we might think this was only to be expected.

Just as philosophers of the Middle Ages were committed Aristotelians,

so there were medieval critics who wanted to commit the works of philosophers to the flames.

In addition to the burning of Mymonides' writings, carried out by Christian authorities at

the behest of Jews, there were decrees by the Christian Church, condemning certain philosophical doctrines as unacceptable.

Most famous is a condemnation laid down by the Bishop of Paris in 1277, which will be the topic

of a future episode.

But in the very same month, a similar edict was made at the University of Oxford by Robert Kilwardby,

the Archbishop of Canterbury.

On this basis alone, it seems easy to fit Kilwardby into our pattern.

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