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4 unusual facts about scholasticism


Neo-Scholasticism

Variation within the tradition of neo-scholastic Thomism is represented by Martin Grabmann (1875-1949), Amato Masnovo (1880-1955), Francesco Olgiati (1886-1962), and Antonin-Dalmace Sertillanges (1863-1948).

Pasquale Galluppi

The care and clearness of his style made his works very popular; but when the Hegelianism of the Neapolitan school became the fashion in non-Catholic circles of thought, and Scholasticism regained its hold among Catholics, Galluppi's philosophy quickly lost ground.

Rodolphus Agricola

He is best known today as the author of De inventione dialectica, as the father of northern European humanism and as a zealous anti-scholastic in the late-fifteenth century.

School of Philosophy

Scholasticism, a method of learning taught by the academics of medieval universities circa 1100–1500


Constantin Brunner

According to Brunner, the authentic philosophy presented by Spinoza has its antithesis in scholasticism which reaches its highest expression in Immanuel Kant.

Contrition

Some of the Scholastic doctors, notably Scotus, Cajetan, and after them Suarez (De Poenit., Disp. iii, sect. vi), asked speculatively whether man if left to himself could elicit a true act of contrition, but no theologian ever taught that makes for forgiveness of sin in the present economy of God could be inspired by merely natural motives.

Fridugisus

The treatise makes use of the dialectical method which was afterwards developed into the scholastic method by Abelard, Alexander of Hales, and St. Thomas Aquinas.

Hermannus Alemannus

The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy : From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Disintegration of Scholasticism, 1100-1600, editors: Norman Kretzmann, Anthony Kenny, Jan Pinborg ; associate editor: Eleonore Stump.

Jacob Anton Zallinger zum Thurn

As a canonist he defended the papal rights again the Febronian tendencies in Germany, and as a philosopher he endeavoured to replace the scholastic method by the empiricism of Newton.

Jan Pinborg

(1982), The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Disintegration of Scholasticism, 1100-1600, New York: Cambridge.

Mathematics

The specialization restricting the meaning of "science" to natural science follows the rise of Baconian science, which contrasted "natural science" to scholasticism, the Aristotelean method of inquiring from first principles.

Prochoros Kydones

An advocate of Western Aristotelian thought, his translation of Latin Scholastic writings, brought him into conflict with Hesychasm, the leading school of Byzantine mystical theology, and its most vigorous defender, Gregory Palamas.

Saint-Amour

William of Saint-Amour, a figure in 13th-century scholasticism, chiefly notable for his withering attacks on the friars


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