scholastics
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- noun
- /skəˈlæs.tɪks/
- Specialized
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escolásticos
- The Scholastics sought to harmonize faith and reason in their theological writings.
- medieval scholastics
- early scholastics
- later scholastics
He was critical of the rationalists, of the Neo scholastics.
- He was critical of the rationalists, of the Neo scholastics.
- Some accidents, as Aristotle and, you know, the later scholastic spelled out, are proper accidents, but they are still not the essence of the thing.
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The Scholastics worked out the theorem of the supernatural as an extended analogy of proportion with nature.
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Many European scholastics criticized his views on the possible intellect.
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To no one's surprise, however, the biology that the Scholastics used has been shown to be inadequate.
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The definition of man as "a rational animal" has been standard since before the Scholastics.
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For this reason, his questions, unlike those of the later Scholastics, did not seek a complete explanatory account of the reality of grace.
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So the Scholastics began by seeking a means of distinguishing grace and creation as gifts.
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The medieval Scholastics argued that the body had to be suitably prepared before the intellectual soul could be infused.
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But the most significant difference between the arguments of the Scholastics and the thought of Aelred rests in their starting points and distinct intentions.
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A growing familiarity among Scholastics with Aristotelian texts, especially the logical works, seems to have effected a vital transition.
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According to Milbank, what allows for the creation of the secular is the grace-nature distinction introduced by the Scholastics and exemplified in Aquinas.
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Synonyms
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A university thinker in the Middle Ages who used reason to study religion
A scholar in the Middle Ages who studied and taught philosophy and religion at a university
Surface Forms
Morphology
scholastics = scholastic (semi-transparent) = scholastic + s
The form indicates 'people related to scholastic' (learned persons), but the specific historical sense referring to medieval philosophers is specialized and not fully predictable from the base.
Etymology
Scholastics comes from the Greek root schole meaning 'leisure' that later meant 'school', the same root as school and scholar. In the Middle Ages, scholastics were the scholars who worked in schools and used careful logic to explain religion and philosophy, which is why the word can mean those medieval thinkers.