This is fascinating. I realized that a model I have for evaluating relationships is basically another take on Albertus Magnus's model of friendship.<p>I'll start with Magnus:<p>Albertus, following Aristotle, distinguished between different types of friendship. He identified three main types:<p>Friendship of Utility: Based on mutual benefit, where individuals associate because they gain something from the relationship.<p>Friendship of Pleasure: Based on shared enjoyment or pleasure, where friends take delight in each other's company.<p>Friendship of Virtue: The highest form of friendship, where the bond is based on mutual respect and a shared commitment to moral goodness and virtue. This type of friendship is selfless and enduring.<p>Now, I'll run through my model, which I have applied to dating. I call the three dimensions: friendship, sex, and romance. You can have varying compatibility on all three dimensions, but in a sense it basically works out to Magnus's version above.<p>Friendship means shared interests. You like doing to same stuff and spending time together.<p>Sex is the pleasure compatibility vector in Magnus's formulation. i.e. how much fun do you have when you're together. Don't think of it just as sex, but also just like "wow this is fun and pleasurable"<p>Romance, people find this word tricky. I also don't think Magnus's idea of "virtue" hits it correctly either. It's basically a sense of tenderness and the deep-rooted feeling that you and the other person should have shared outcomes.
They omitted the most important part.<p>Albertus Magnus knew Arabic and his sources were the books left behind after the Spanish reconquista, that were mostly in Arabic and some translated to Latin.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_translations_of_the_12th_century" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_translations_of_the_12...</a><p>The Arabic books were themselves translations in many cases (from Greek) but the West had no paper to print them until it was reintroduced by... again, the Islamic civilization.<p>Albertus Magnus and his successors like Thomas Aquinas influenced the church enough so that the inquisition doesn't kill the practitioners of science, which has merit but their ideas were not 100% original, they built on top of others. Scholasticism is influenced by Averroism.<p>The church still harassed scientists in the years to come, notably Galileo Galilei.<p>Read this if you want a more unbiased view of the world, Leibniz at least was a fan of it.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayy_ibn_Yaqdhan" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayy_ibn_Yaqdhan</a>
I.e. "Albert the Great: Remembering a Medieval Polymath Who Paved the Way for the Renaissance and Holistic Thinking"<p>The title edit made it "clickbaity".