Concept
Neo-scholasticism
Overview
Neo-scholasticism, also known as neo-scholastic Thomism, or neo-Thomism because of the great influence of the writings of Thomas Aquinas on the movement, is a revival and development of medieval scholasticism in Catholic theology and scholastic philosophy, which began in the second half of the 19th century.
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For this reason, too, it is a legend universally believed, that Pythagoras, for instance, received his Philosophy from India and Egypt; the fame of the wisdom of these people, which wisdom is understood also to contain Philosophy, is an old one. The Oriental ideas and religious worship which prevailed throughout the West up to the time of the Roman Empire, likewise bear the name of Oriental Philosophy.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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To summarize these historical antecedents further yet more briefly, in association with the renaissance of our modern philosophy, A. W. and Friedrich von Schlegel, impelled by their zest for novelty and all that was either distinctive or arresting, assimilated just so much of the philosophical ideas as was compatible with minds essentially critical, though by no means really philosophical in any strict sense of the…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
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The reaction against authority in all spheres of life, and the intensity of the struggle, against great odds, for freedom of action and inquiry, led to such an emphasis upon personal observations and ideas as in effect to isolate mind, and set it apart from the world to be known.
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
Close in meaning to Neo-scholasticism; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Neo-scholasticism
- Józef Maria Bocheński
- Mortimer J. Adler
- John Finnis
- Meister Eckhart
- Thomas Aquinas
- Frithjof Schuon
- Milan Machovec
- Joseph Kleutgen
- Peter Serracino Inglott
Related ideas
- Francisco de Vitoria
- Francisco Suárez
- Étienne Gilson
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Thomas Cajetan
- Dualism in cosmology
- Philosophy
- Immanuel Kant
- Immortality
- Thomas Aquinas
- Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Problem of universals
- Adolf von Harnack
- René Descartes
- Soul
- Theology
- Syllabus of Errors
- Encyclical
- Aeterni Patris
- Oak
- Scholasticism
- Edward Feser
- Free will
- Syllogism
Place in the tradition
Part of Australian philosophy.