Diverse as their positive tendencies were, they were at one in contending against scholasticism and monkery.
Of greater importance for the development of mediæval scholasticism was his Commentary on the logical works of Aristotle, published in several editions of the Aristotelian Organon.
Of special importance was his translation of a commentary on the logical works of Aristotle as the first and for a long time almost the only philosophical groundwork of mediæval scholasticism (§ 99, 2).
Vatican in reference to German affairs, introduced the new Roman scholasticismby his work “Die Theologie der Vorzeit,” into the German episcopal seminaries, whose teachers were mostly trained in the Collegium Germanicum at Rome.
The Augustan age of scholasticism was that also of the composition of Latin hymns and sequences (§ 88, 2).
As Origen has in himself the germs of all orthodoxy and heterodoxy of the ancient church undeveloped and uncontrasted, so also in Erigena are there the germs of the contradictions of later scholasticism and mysticism.
Like d’Ailly, Gerson was a decided nominalist, and sought to give new life to scholasticismby combining with it Scripture study and mysticism.
Hence the reaction of the despised scholasticism and the contemned monasticism against humanism was often in the right.
Scholasticism took a new departure in the beginning of the 13th century, and by the middle of the century it reached its climax.
Humanists, in common with the reformers, inveighed against the debased scholasticism as well as against the superstition of the age.
In the 13th century dialectic scholasticism gained the complete ascendency, and reached its highest glory in the form of dogmatism in league with mysticism, and never, in the persons of its greatest representatives, in opposition to it.
Gradually, however, a new dogmatic scholasticism arose, which had the defects as well as the excellences of the mediæval system.
A scholasticism of love, modelled on ecclesiastical scholasticism and substituting the beloved woman for the Deity, was gradually evolved.
Bacon spent ten years in prison; but in spite of everything, he was so much under the influence of scholasticism that he considered it the task of philosophy to adduce evidence for the truth of the Christian dogma.
The Jews had no philosophy, and when their national traditions came to be theoretically explicated and justified, they were made to issue in a puerile scholasticism and a rabid intolerance.
The title Ultimus Scholasticorum is often wrongly bestowed on Biel; scholasticism did not cease with him, even in Germany, and continued to flourish long after his time in the universities of Spain.
This simplified formula of Judaism appealed to the Jewish masses and to those democratically inclined scholars who were satisfied neither with rabbinic scholasticism nor with the ascetic Cabala of the school of Ari.
The new cultural movement which had arisen among the Jews of Germany had no chance of penetrating into this dark realm, which was guarded on the one hand by scholasticism and on the other by mysticism.
True, Talmudic scholasticism succeeded in sharpening the intellect, but, failing to supply concrete information, it often confused the mind.
The sudden transition from rabbinic scholasticism to the "Critical Philosophy" of Germany, and from the primitive existence of a Lithuanian Jew to the free life of an educated European, destroyed Maimon's mental equilibrium.
In the northwest rabbinic scholasticism reigned supreme, and the caste of scholars, petrified in the ideas of Talmudic Babylonia, was the determining factor in public life.
Footnote 1: We may judge of it by the Talmud, the echo of the Jewish scholasticism of that time.
All confessions of faith are travesties of the idea of Jesus, just as the scholasticism of the Middle Ages, in proclaiming Aristotle the sole master of a completed science, perverted the thought of Aristotle.
Happily for him, he was also ignorant of the strange scholasticismwhich was taught at Jerusalem, and which was soon to constitute the Talmud.
On the other hand, Luther allows his exegesis to be influenced by those later and less reputable exponents of scholasticism with whom alone he was acquainted.
When he published his ‘Luther’ he could look back on many years of solid and fruitful labour in the field of mediæval Scholasticism and Mysticism.
In particular was mediæval Scholasticism selected by Luther and his friends as a butt for attack and misrepresentation.
From the moment when the Friars settled in the Universities scholasticismabsorbed the whole mental energy of the student world.
Scholasticism has been belittled by the modern sophists from the time of the XVIII-century Encyclopædist to the XIX-century superman.
Yet scholasticismwas an important factor in the formation of the French intellect, which, in its virile youth, it put through a course of useful mental gymnastics.
Bishop Eudes de Sully, like his predecessor, had many a link with scholasticism and with other bishop-builders.
Science admits that Bernard's disbelief in scholasticism was well founded, whatever it may think of his reasons.
Adam's scholasticismwas the most sympathetic form of mediaeval philosophy.
That there was, however, an Irish scholasticism as early as the eighth century is shown by Mosheim, 8 Cent.
The worst side of scholasticism at all times was that it was more often than not a mere logical expatiation in vacuo; this partly for sheer lack of real knowledge.
Feudalism and scholasticism took less hold there than in Germany England or France; the spirit of chivalry never touched the Italian, and Puritanism, of course, left him scatheless.
Scholasticism was still whole and unbroken, in spite of Roger Bacon, who attacked its methods with weapons of his own forging, yet asserting loudly the single-eyed subservience of all the sciences to theology.
With Duns Scotus, scholasticism reasoned itself out of human reach.
We enter with him upon the contemplation of these conceptions, which scholasticism did not indeed create, but elaborated with marvellous logic, and refined to a consistent intellectual beauty.
Dropping the sole remark, thatscholasticism has no sense of humour, we pass on to Thomas's careful consideration of the angelic relations to space or locality (Qu.
Scholasticism was losing its grasp of life; and the universities in the fourteenth century were crowded with men whose minds mistook words for thoughts; and because of this they gave themselves to hypertrophic logic.
So throughout the whole scholastic range, attitude and method alike are fixed by the fact that scholasticismwas primarily an appropriation of transmitted propositions.
And in this respect at least the decadence of scholasticism took its inception from this bold and virile mind which had small reverence for popes or for the idols of the schools.
For Hugo's position in the history of scholasticism and mysticism see post, Chapter XXXVI.
Scholasticism still opposes to such changes the method of confutation by single decisive reasons, showing that the new view involves self-contradiction, or traverses some fundamental principle.
It remained for painting, the youngest of the arts, to enter last into the van of progress and take its stand against the classic and orthodox scholasticism now discredited and void.
Abstracted from its relations with reality, the scholasticism of the Middle Ages pushed Deduction to mania and moonshine.
Then it was, that, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Occidental mind, astir under the oceanic movements of the modern, arose to break the spell of scholasticism that had fettered and frozen the intellect of man.
Yet even Dante, though knowing that he was destined to eclipse both the Guidi, though claiming Love alone for his inspirer, was not wholly free from the scholasticism of his century.
The cloister is quitted for the world, religious for artistic ecstasy, celestial for earthly paradise, scholasticism for humane studies, the ascetic for the hedonistic rule of conduct.
He was a man of admirable character, of rare acuteness of mind, already well out of the fogs of mediæval scholasticism which were still clinging around Erasmus.
Yet it is wholly free from the fripperies which disfigure the masses of Haydn, as well as from the dry scholasticism of much of Mozart's own early religious work.
Through the Latin translation, made with the help of an apostate Jew, and bearing the author's name in the mutilated form of Avencebrol, later changed into Avicebron, scholasticism became saturated with its philosophic ideas.
Glancing back for a moment, our eye is arrested by Moses Maimonides, the great systematizer of the Jewish Law, and the connecting link between scholasticism and the Greek-Arabic development of the Aristotelian system.
Scholasticism is often said to have been the very acme of absurdity in teaching, and its real import is entirely missed.
The three centuries and a half from the beginning of the eleventh century represent just the time of the rise of scholasticism and the beginning of its decline.
At once the glory and reproach of his Order, he used the weapons of Scholasticism to destroy it.
That day the downfall ofscholasticism in England was at last complete.
Soon scholasticism absorbed the whole mental energy of the student world.
From the moment that the friars settled on the Universities, scholasticism had absorbed the whole mental energy of the student world.
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