The Common Good is often misunderstood in our Post-Enlightenment world, but it’s the foundation of Aristotle’s Politics and essential for understanding how it completes his Ethics.
How did theology become systematic? What is the history of the literal interpretation of Scripture? Thanks to the adoption of Aristotelian scientific methods, learned from his philosophical methodology, theologians transformed the allegorical and mystical interpretation of Scripture into literal interpretation.
See how Peter Lombard, Albert the Great, and Aquinas transformed theology into the systematic theology we have today.