Schwickerath remarks,[37] "It can not and need not be denied that the education imparted by the mediaeval scholastics was in many regards defective.
Occam and his school deviate somewhat from the rest of the Scholastics in the application of the well-known axiom: “Facienti quod est in se Deus non denegat gratiam.
The “disabling” of these powers of which St. Thomas and the otherScholastics speak, i.
He alone among all the Scholasticsagrees with Augustine and the Apostle Paul, against Carlstadt and all the new Schoolmen.
Yet, according to him, the Scholastics knew no better.
For Wessel’s character as a philosopher, who boldly opposed the scholastics of his age, see Brucker, iii.
They failed because like the earlier scholastics they had no gospel to proclaim to men, no tidings to give of a new life which could enable wearied humanity to bear the ills to which it was subject.
The scholastics then enquired why, since the Qurán was sent to be a guide and direction to men, were not all its verses muhkam?
The Traditionists answer the objections of the Scholastics thus.
The object of the understanding is the essence of the thing understood, quidditas, as the scholastics called it.
The scholastics were so far from regarding sensible representations as sufficient for intelligence, that they denied that they were intelligible.
The immateriality of the souls of brutes is not a discovery of modern philosophy, the scholastics maintained it, and carried their ideas on this subject so far as to assert that no vital principle can be a body.
The scholastics always carefully separated the sensible order from the intelligible.
Latin letters which appeared in the 16th century in Germany, attacking with merciless severity the doctrines and modes of living of the scholastics and monks, credited with hastening the Reformation.
Professors and Scholastics alike are working for a purpose.
Because of the ambiguity of the word “equity” Dominicus Soto, Becanus, and a few other Scholastics rejected the use of the term meritum de congruo in theology.
D’Argentré’s researches show how necessary it is to draw sharp distinctions and carefully to establish the real state of the question before claiming the common teaching of the Scholastics in favor of any particular theory of predestination.
It was known to the older Scholastics and emphasized anew by Luther’s famous adversary Johann Eck.
There was nothing of which the Protestant scholastics were more proud than of their agreement with the Fathers of the early Church.
In the footsteps of the former moved all the scholastics of the Middle Age, and again, even Locke and Leibnitz in their so-called 'natural theology.
So did the scholastics with Aristotle; their bigotted partiality to this author was nearly of the same force with the priestly attachment to the Bible.
That which most of all separates him from the mediaeval scholastics of his own people, is his rationalistic conviction that God can be known.
Footnote 2: The Scholastics applied the term a priori to knowledge from causes (from that which precedes), and a posteriori to knowledge from effects.
The scholastics had become as fanatical for Aristotle or Averroës as the churchmen were for their dogmas; [1496] and Petrarch made for mental freedom by resisting all dogmatisms alike.
John Scotus indeed affirmed the identity of true religion with true philosophy, without professing to subordinate the latter; but the most eminent of the later scholastics affirmed such a subordination.
It is to be noted that in his opposition to the scholastics he had predecessors.
The scholastics were not supernaturalists in this sense; they knew the dogmas of the Church in thought and in conception.
The Scholastics are included in it, and Arabians and Jews are also historically to be noticed, but this philosophy mainly falls within the Christian Church.
The scholastics were impelled along the same path, not only by precedent, but by profession.
The scholastics after Aristotle distinguished in a subject three modes of beings: viz.
Christian Scholasticsand Mohammedan theologians studied and used the Guide of the Perplexed.
En revanche, as the French would say, the Christian Scholastics of the thirteenth century made Gabirol their own and studied him diligently.
In the matter of external sources philosophical reflection after Maimonides was enriched in respect to details by the works of Averroes on the Arabic side and those of the chief Christian scholastics among the Latin writers.
Not so Thomas Aquinas and the scholastics generally.
To the Christian scholastics of mediæval Europe he is known as the Jewish physician and philosopher next in importance to Maimonides.
In the Middle Ages the sect of the Cathari, the Bogomiles, the famous scholastics Scotus Erigena and Bonaventura, as well as numerous less distinguished authors, advocated it.
There lived at the same time a scholar of distinction, and of more liberal views than most of the scholastics of his time, named John Reuchlin.
These old scholastics were bitterly opposed to the new learning, which had taken root in Italy, and was spreading abroad, and they spoke contemptuously of it as "secular.
As the scholasticsput it, bonum est diffusivum sui.
Therefore, what the scholastics say of the love of God is a dream.
For although in the doctrine of repentance the scholastics have said nothing at all concerning faith, yet we think that none of our adversaries is so mad as to deny that absolution is a voice of the Gospel.
But if human nature have such strength as to be able of itself to love God above all things, as the scholastics confidently affirm, what will original sin be?
Here the scholastics wrangle about dialectic questions, they do not explain what original righteousness is.
The scholasticssaw that there were satisfactions in the Church; and they did not notice that these exhibitions had been instituted both for the purpose of example, and for testing those who desired to be received by the Church.
But the scholastics mention not even a word concerning this faith.
This argument has moved the scholastics to invent the meritum condigni; for there must be (they think) a difference between those who are saved and those who are damned.
Although the scholastics extenuate both sin and punishment when they teach that man by his own strength, can fulfil the commandments of God; in Genesis the punishment, imposed on account of original sin, is described otherwise.
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