A report on Middle Ages and Scholasticism
Scholasticism was a medieval school of philosophy that employed a critical organic method of philosophical analysis predicated upon the Aristotelian 10 Categories.
- ScholasticismIn the West, intellectual life was marked by scholasticism, a philosophy that emphasised joining faith to reason, and by the founding of universities.
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Aristotle
4 linksGreek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.
Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.
He also influenced Judeo-Islamic philosophies (800–1400) during the Middle Ages, as well as Christian theology, especially the Neoplatonism of the Early Church and the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church.
Thomas Aquinas
3 linksThomas Aquinas, OP (Tommaso d'Aquino; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, who was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism; he is known within the scholastic tradition as the Doctor Angelicus, the Doctor Communis, and the Doctor Universalis.
He has been described as "the most influential thinker of the medieval period" and "the greatest of the medieval philosopher-theologians."
Boethius
2 linksRoman senator, consul, magister officiorum, historian and philosopher of the early 6th century.
Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, historian and philosopher of the early 6th century.
While jailed, Boethius composed his Consolation of Philosophy, a philosophical treatise on fortune, death, and other issues, which became one of the most popular and influential works of the Middle Ages.
Lorenzo Valla described Boethius as the last of the Romans and the first of the scholastic philosophers.
Peter Abelard
1 linksPeter Abelard (Pierre Abélard; Petrus Abaelardus or Abailardus; c. 1079 – 21 April 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, leading logician, theologian, poet, composer and musician.
Medieval university
1 linksA medieval university was a corporation organized during the Middle Ages for the purposes of higher education.
The word universitas originally applied only to the scholastic guilds—that is, the corporation of students and masters—within the studium, and it was always modified, as universitas magistrorum, universitas scholarium, or universitas magistrorum et scholarium.
Early Middle Ages
1 linksTypically regarded by historians as lasting from the late 5th or early 6th century to the 10th century.
Typically regarded by historians as lasting from the late 5th or early 6th century to the 10th century.
They marked the start of the Middle Ages of European history.
The teaching of dialectic (a discipline that corresponds to today's logic) was responsible for the increase in the interest in speculative inquiry; from this interest would follow the rise of the Scholastic tradition of Christian philosophy.
University
0 linksInstitution of higher education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines.
Institution of higher education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines.
At the time of the emergence of urban town life and medieval guilds, specialized "associations of students and teachers with collective legal rights usually guaranteed by charters issued by princes, prelates, or the towns in which they were located" came to be denominated by this general term.
The efforts of this "scholasticism" were focused on applying Aristotelian logic and thoughts about natural processes to biblical passages and attempting to prove the viability of those passages through reason.
William of Ockham
0 linksWilliam of Ockham (also Occam, from Gulielmus Occamus; c. undefined 1287 – 10 April 1347) was an English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, and catholic theologian, who is believed to have been born in Ockham, a small village in Surrey.
During the Middle Ages, theologian Peter Lombard's Sentences (1150) had become a standard work of theology, and many ambitious theological scholars wrote commentaries on it.