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scholastic

scholastic

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About medieval academic ideas on faith and reason
  • adjective
  • /skəˈlæstɪk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : escolástico
  • Similar considerations lead to Descartes's rejection of the scholastic account of concept formation.
  • scholastic theology
  • scholastic philosophy
  • scholastic philosophers

Examples

  • Lonergan was schooled in a Scholastic and Thomistic curriculum.

    Academic text (2009)
  • "The main questions of that scholastic thought of the thirteenth century seem to have been these," J. W. Allen wrote:

    Academic text (1999)
  • The same may be said in general of the Scholastic argument ex convenientia.

    Academic text (2008)
  • 58 Scholastic philosophers disagree over whether prime matter could exist without substantial form.

    Academic text (2013)
  • God alone is, in the scholastic phrase, actus purus, and he alone is entirely without body.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Grounded in the scholastic tradition, Schell builds bridges to an evolutionary way of thinking.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Indeed, the philosophical approach of contemporary sacramental theologians challenges the previously normative approach of Scholastic theology.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Here, the Scholastic dictum that grace completes and perfects nature comes to the fore.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Pannenberg's preference for truth as "coherence" does not adequately represent the Scholastic term "adaequatio."

    Academic text (2009)
  • Many universities offer a curriculum that is deeply rooted in scholastic philosophy.

Surface Forms

scholastic positive

Morphology

scholastic = school (opaque) = schol + astic

The connection to 'school' is clear, but the specific philosophical and theological connotation is not a standard derivation.

Etymology

Scholastic can also describe the medieval system called scholasticism, a way university teachers in the Middle Ages used careful study and logical argument. So scholastic in history means 'relating to that school method of thought'.