But 1277 marks something more specific: an institutional effort to thwart the pursuit of philosophy independently of theology. To quote Luca Bianchi, a scholar who has written extensively on the condemnations, “Tempier was not so much interested in distinguishing philosophy from theology, but in subordinating the one to the other.”15 If we think of philosophy as an autonomous discipline that should be allowed to follow reason wherever it leads, then philosophy does seem to have been hampered by the condemnations.
