Method
Scholasticism
Overview
method of critical thought which dominated teaching by the academics ("scholastics", or "schoolmen") of medieval universities in Europe from about 1100 to 1700
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And at bottom what is called Scholasticism is the whole-hearted and consistent formulation and application of the methods which are suited to instruction when the material of instruction is taken ready-made, rather than as something which students are to find out for themselves. So far as schools still teach from textbooks and rely upon the principle of authority and acquisition rather than upon that of discovery…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
States what Scholasticism is; names Scholasticism several times.
In a certain sense it aimed at power, but power over other men in the interest of some class or sect or person, not power over natural forces in the common interest of all. Bacon's conviction of the quarrelsome, self-displaying character of the scholarship which had come down from antiquity was of course not so much due to Greek science itself as to the degenerate heritage of scholasticism in the fourteenth century…
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
States what Scholasticism is; names Scholasticism twice.
In the rise of medieval thought, I mean scholasticism and the synchronistic art developments, undoubtedly the crusades and the discovery of the writings of Aristotle were powerful influences. The development of scholasticism from Roscellin to Albertus Magnus closely follows the successive steps in the knowledge of Aristotle. Prantl thinks that that is the whole story, and few men have thumbed more books than Carl…
Charles S. Peirce, Chance, Love, and Logic
Names Scholasticism several times.
Philosophers who discussed Scholasticism
- Francisco Suárez
- Étienne Gilson
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Avicenna
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Gorampa
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
- John of Salisbury
- John Stuart Mill
- William Gilbert (physicist)
- Giambattista Vico
- Jean Buridan
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- William of Conches
- Ernest Renan
- Maimonides
- Boethius
- Siger of Brabant
- Meister Eckhart
- Thomas Aquinas
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Plato
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Related ideas
- Francisco Suárez
- John Scotus Eriugena
- Étienne Gilson
- Francis of Assisi
- Ancient philosophy
- Treccani
- Western philosophy
- Alcuin
- History of science
- Ancient Greek
- Thomas Bradwardine
- Albertus Magnus
- Analytic philosophy
- John Wycliffe
- Jewish philosophy
- Works of Aristotle
- Categories (Aristotle)
- Anselm of Laon
- Latin
- William of Conches
- Middle Ages
- Boethius
- University of Chicago Press
- University
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Disputation
- Marsilius of Padua
- Medieval university
- Spanish Empire
- Treccani
- Monastic school
- Constantine the African
- Edward Grant
- James of Venice
- Bede
- Heresy in the Catholic Church
- Petrus Aureoli
- Transmission of the Greek Classics
- Council of Sens
- Dominic de Guzmán
- Giovanni Ventimiglia
- Sententia
- Tomáš Týn
- David S. Oderberg
- Province of Canterbury
- Tandem Verlag