In the thirteenth century, in the summa theologica, he was really re introducing aristotle to audiences. We probably wouldn't read the nicomachian ethics to day were it not for saint thomas aquinas. He defined love as to will the good of the other, as other. And that's an stotelian or aratomistic concept, very related to the buddhist ideas that we're talking about here.
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