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scholasticism|skəʊˈlæstɪsɪz(ə)m, skɒ-|
[f. scholastic + -ism.]
1. The doctrines of the Schoolmen; the predominant theological and philosophical teaching of the period a.d. 1000–1500, based upon the authority of the Christian Fathers and of Aristotle and his commentators.
1756–82J. Warton Ess. Pope (ed. 4) I. vi. 313 But the talents of Abelard were not confined to theology, jurisprudence, philosophy, and the thorny paths of scholasticism. 1854Milman Lat. Chr. vi. ii. (1864) III. 389 Erigena..the parent of scholasticism..as a free discursive Speculative Science, before it had been bound up with rigid orthodoxy.
2. Servile adherence to the methods and teaching of the schools; narrow or unenlightened insistence on traditional doctrines and forms of exposition.
1861Holland Lessons in Life x. 146 He found his county tied up in formalism, scholasticism, and tradition, and by strokes as remarkable for boldness as strength he set it free. 1878Bayne Purit. Rev. ii. 47 This argument..was quite in the manner of seventeenth century scholasticism. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 127 Contact with the world had..enabled them so far to raise their heads out of the heavy fog of Jewish scholasticism. 1884Hunter tr. Reuss' Hist. Canon 341 The unattractive form of the works it produced has in general the stamp of a dull, dry scholasticism. |