scholasticism
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- noun
- /skəˈlæstɪsɪzəm/
- Specialized
:
escolasticismo
- I have frequently observed that much of EA looks more like medieval scholasticism (taxonomy for the sake of taxonomy) than modern science.
- a new form of scholasticism
Examples
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This cognitive psychologist is really unimpressed with medieval scholasticism about the mental.
Blog text (19) -
Instead, Scholasticism began to emphasize res et sacramentum, that is, the real presence of Christ under the form of consecrated bread and wine.
Academic text (2004) -
Lyvitz is doing something new in that he is bringing back some elements of scholasticism into Cartesian philosophy.
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Behavioral science is as critical of scientifically unreconstructed political opinion today as modern natural science was of scholasticism.
Academic text (1995) -
When, for example, Descartes talks about scholasticism, does he have in mind a particular writer or a certain philosophical handbook?
Academic text (2002) -
Cho then volunteered to come to America as a teacher, expanding his journey of scholasticism across the globe.
Blog text (6) -
Using the dialectic tools of early scholasticism, the new science of ecclesiastical jurisprudence makes possible a new clarity and precision.
Academic text (1993) -
Humanism did not destroy Aristotelian scholasticism, as is often asserted, but coexisted with it through the sixteenth century and beyond.
Academic text (1991) -
There are three main conduits of this Platonic tradition in the seventeenth century, so far as Leibniz was concerned: the new "Thomist" scholasticism.
Academic text (1998) -
In the medieval universities, scholasticism was the dominant methodology for studying theology and philosophy.
Surface Forms
Morphology
scholasticism = scholastic (semi-transparent) = scholastic + ism
Formed regularly from the adjective 'scholastic' with '-ism' meaning a system or doctrine, but the sense refers to a specific medieval philosophical/theological movement which may not be fully inferable from the adjective alone.
Etymology
The word scholasticism comes from the old Greek word scholē, which meant 'leisure' and later 'school', and it is the same root behind the English words school and scholar. It was used for the strict, rule-based way of learning in medieval schools, so the origin helps explain why scholasticism means a system of study that follows set principles and careful reasoning.