Concept
School of thought
Overview
A school of thought, or intellectual tradition, is the perspective of a group of people who share common characteristics of opinion or outlook of a philosophy, discipline, belief, social movement, economics, cultural movement, or art movement. The phrase has become a common colloquialism to describe those that think alike or those that focus on a common idea.
Schools are often named after their founders such as the "Rinzai school" of Zen, named after Linji Yixuan; and the Asharite school of early Muslim philosophy, named after Abu l'Hasan al-Ashari. They are often also named after their places of origin, such as the Ionian school of philosophy, which originated in Ionia; the Chicago school of architecture, which originated in Chicago, Illinois; the Prague school of linguistics, named after a linguistic circle founded in Prague; and the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School, whose representatives lived in Tartu and Moscow.
An example of a school of thought in Christianity is Neoplatonism, which has massively influenced Christian thought, from Augustinianism to Renaissance/Humanism to the present day.
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I. The initial stage of that developing experience which is called thinking is experience. This remark may sound like a silly truism. It ought to be one; but unfortunately it is not.
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
States what School of thought is.
Hence a monism of a devout kind. In some way we must be fallen angels, one with intelligence as such; and a great disdain for empiricism of the sensationalist sort has always characterized this school of thought, which, on the whole, has reigned supreme at Oxford and in the Scottish universities until the present day. But now there are signs of its giving way to a wave of revised empiricism. I confess that I should…
William James, A Pluralistic Universe
Names School of thought.
This is done two ways. First, by keeping the idea which is brought into it, for some time actually in view, which is called CONTEMPLATION. 2. Memory. The other way of retention is, the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which, after imprinting, have disappeared, or have been as it were laid aside out of sight.
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1
States what School of thought is.
Philosophers who discussed School of thought
Related ideas
- Belief
- Rinzai school
- Philosophy
- Neoplatonism and Christianity
- Platonism in the Renaissance
- Linji Yixuan
- Early Islamic philosophy
- Ash'arism
- Moscow
- Architecture
- Prague
- Ionian school (philosophy)
- Renaissance humanism
- Zen
- Ionia
- Augustinianism
- Cultural movement
- Outline of academic disciplines
- Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.