By teaching this method Abelard created the implements for the erection of the great theological systems of the schoolmen of the 12th and 13th centuries: Peter Lombard (d.
The "right" of tyrannicide had been maintained by Catholic schoolmen before the Reformation, and by both Protestants and Catholics afterwards, times without number, even as they maintained the right of the people to depose and change kings.
The philosophical subtleties of discussion made the schoolmen lose sight of the main issue, and devote themselves to the most ridiculous questions.
Sturm's counsel was sought by schoolmen all over Europe, and he came to be the recognized leader of educational forces.
But then we should have to prove that this multiplicity of halos, or accidental glories, exists, in addition to the three of which the schoolmen speak.
It was inasmuch as a knowledge of physics was needed for the development of metaphysics that the mediaeval schoolmen devoted themselves to the study of nature.
The mediaeval schoolmen reached similar conclusions, however, by strict reasoning from the premises of observation that they had in the olden times.
The debates of the schoolmen were sharp and subtle enough; but they wanted interest and grandeur, and were besides confined to a few: they did not affect the general mass of the community.
The arid abstractions of the schoolmen were succeeded by the fanciful visions of the occult philosophers; and both were but preludes to the experimental philosophy of Bacon and Newton, and the metaphysics of Locke.
More than your schoolmen teach, within Myself, alas!
The old schoolmen and fathers seem to agree that the Devil and his ministers have bodies in some sort material, subject to passions and liable to injury and pain.
God hath sent the man Long sought, to teach me, by his simple trust, Wisdom the weary schoolmen never knew.
However, neither Aristotle nor the Schoolmen asserted that all kinds of labour had equal value.
Contrary to the assumptions of some modern writers, the Schoolmen never said that value was something as fixedly inherent in goods as physical and chemical qualities.
In giving to these personified powers the determinative indicative of deity, the Babylonian schoolmen were not conscious of expressing anything more than their belief in the divine origin of the power and skill exercised by man.
Before leaving the subject, a word needs to be said regarding the relation between the active Assyrian pantheon and the long lists of deities prepared by the schoolmen of Babylonia and Assyria.
Further than this the questionings of the schoolmen did not go.
In the religious literature, moreover, as reshaped by the schoolmen of the time, his rôle is even more prominent than that of Marduk.
Besides the texts themselves, we have proper names containing a spirit as an element, and also lists of those spirits prepared by the schoolmen on the basis of the texts.
This influence of the schoolmen while centering, as repeatedly pointed out, around the position of Marduk, manifests itself in a pronounced fashion, also, in the changed position henceforth accorded to the god Ea.
In other words, the conception of the triad Anu, Bel, and Ea is again an evidence of the existence of schoolmen and of schools of religious thought in the days of the ancient empire.
In the very sense in which this was said of Abélard, it may be urged as a chief characteristic of the saintly schoolmen of the thirteenth century.
The schoolmen of the following century only know Abélard from passages in Hugh of St. Victor and others of his enemies.
All the great schoolmen of the following century accepted the Abélardist notion of a rationalistic illustration and defence of the Trinity.
One of the proudest achievements of St. Thomas and the schoolmen was the construction of an elaborate analogical conception of the Trinity.
He had come to stay; and the schoolmen were engrossed in the work of fitting him with garments of Christian theology.
Hence the full and detailed theory elaborated by the Schoolmen has been tortured to fit first one and then another scheme of political reform.
The Schoolmen can therefore be regarded as a consistent and logical school.
But Aristotle never got beyond the syllogism, which is a very small part of the subject, and the schoolmen never got beyond Aristotle.
Let subtle schoolmen teach these friends to fight, More studious to divide than to unite; And grace and virtue, sense and reason split, With all the rash dexterity of wit.
Even those I pardon, for whose sinful sake Schoolmen new tenements in hell must make; Of whose strange crimes no canonist can tell In what Commandment's large contents they dwell.
When the schoolmen talked of the essence of an individual, they did not mean the properties implied in its name, for the names of individuals imply no properties.
This employment of a word to denote the mere letters and syllables of which it is composed, was termed by the schoolmen the suppositio materialis of the word.
To the schoolmen the vulgar languages are principally indebted for what precision and analytic subtlety they possess.
It is in this sense that logic is, what it was so expressively called by the schoolmen and by Bacon, ars artium; the science of science itself.
Were the schoolmen right or wrong in giving to some of the classes into which things may be divided, the name of kinds, and considering others as secondary divisions, grounded on differences of a comparatively superficial nature?
The series of events may be said to constitute the relation; the schoolmen called it the foundation of the relation, fundamentum relationis.
Is there no difference, then, save this merely verbal one, between the classes which the schoolmen admitted to be genera or species, and those to which they refused the title?
One of the betterschoolmen of the day was Gabriel Biel.
He does not even trouble to uphold the frivolous accusation that the Schoolmen had been acquainted only with Aristotelian righteousness, but actually refutes it by another objection.
The great Schoolmen on the contrary taught with St. Thomas, that the preparation and disposition for saving grace, i.
The older schoolmen were no longer appreciated and nominalistic errors, such as were fostered in the school of William of Occam, held the field.
Here also it was a question of a rather widely spread abuse which the better class of Schoolmen had prudently avoided.
So speaks the most eminent of the Schoolmen in the name of the true theology of the Middle Ages.
They fancy that sin is destroyed in Baptism and in the sacrament of Penance, and they declare it absurd that the Apostle should speak of sin dwelling within him [as a matter of fact the Schoolmen did nothing of the sort].
The Schoolmenswung the pendulum back, letting sound and froth go and thinking only of their subject-matter, despising the classics.
In expressing their distinctions the Schoolmen had thrown to the winds the restraints of classical Latin and the care of elegance; and with many of them language had degenerated into jargon.
The teaching of the Schoolmen made its way into Italy, but had little vogue; and with the Church, through such Popes as Nicholas V, on the side of the Renaissance, resistance almost disappeared.
In their neglect of the classics the Schoolmen had a powerful ally.
It would be so easy with those counters of German metaphysicians and the schoolmen to explain how it is that Browning has a philosophy of generalised notions, and yet so often misses the form of generalisation special to the poet.
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason accomplished what the nominalistic schoolmen failed to achieve: it showed the impossibility of establishing by means of logic the dogma of God or any absolute conception of the universe.
The schoolmen understand, in fact, by forma substantialis that which I call the grade of the objectification of will in a thing.
This relation may be very well expressed in the language of the schoolmen by saying the concepts are the universalia post rem, but music gives the universalia ante rem, and the real world the universalia in re.
Schoolmen and pedants held up to the admiration of the people the heroes of the feudal times and the advantages of the system they administered.
Though it be not exempt from inaccuracies, the method appeared so well adapted to the purposes of the schoolmen that they followed the same and for their lectures gave comments on these four books of the Sentences.
The first of these, according to Tennemann, begins the list of schoolmen with Hales; the two latter agree in conferring that honour on Albertus Magnus.
These have been called the scholastic jurists, the glory of the schoolmen having excited an emulous desire to apply their dialectic methods in jurisprudence.
A few lines from his pleading for the schoolmen will exhibit his ingenuity and elegance.
The greatest of the schoolmen were the Dominican Thomas Aquinas, and the Franciscan Duns Scotus.
Hermolaus found, however, nothing better to reply than the compliment, that Picus would be disavowed by the schoolmen for defending them in so eloquent a style.
Meiners (in his Comparison of the Middle Ages) is rather superficial as to their philosophy, but presents a lively picture of the schoolmen in relation to literature and manners.
It comprehends, besides all ancient authors, the schoolmen and other writers of the middle ages.
Several colleges were about this time founded at Oxford and Cambridge, which, in the design of their munificent founders, were to become, as they have done, the instruments of a better discipline than the barbarous schoolmen afforded.
Thus the Platonists, St. Augustine and the Schoolmen were right to say that God is the cause of the material element of evil which lies in the positive, and not of the formal element, which lies in privation.
Thus it is happily the case that this power nowhere exists, and that it is 'a being of reasoning reason', as some Schoolmen call the fictions that are not even possible.
When one flings away merchandise in order to save oneself, the action, which the Schoolmen call mixed, is voluntary and free; and yet love of life indubitably prevails over love of possessions.
Plato, Aristotle and even Thomas Aquinas, Durand and other Schoolmen of the sounder sort reason on that question like the generality of men, and as unprejudiced people always have reasoned.
Scotus and sundry other Schoolmenappear to reject it, but fundamentally their distinctions come to the same thing.
Schoolmen have pounded down and reduced to its essence.
Modern philosophers have improved upon the opinions of the Schoolmen by showing that, according to the laws of corporeal nature, a body can only be set in motion by the movement of another body propelling it.
The work of the Schoolmen was to organize and present in systematic and dogmatic form the teachings of the Church (R.
The extravagances of the schoolmen are, however, not always those of Aristotle.
In the history of human folly, often so closely connected with that of human knowledge, some of the schoolmen (the commentators on Aquinas and others) prided themselves, and were even admired for their impenetrable obscurity!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schoolmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
