neo-scholasticadj.n.

1885 Mind 10 624 In the usual Neo-Scholastic way, Dr. Knauer tries..to find in the Aristotelianism of Aquinas anticipations of the theories and results of modern science and philosophy.

1915 London Q. Rev. Jan. 49 The ‘Neo-scholastic’ movement would have attracted no attention outside Catholic circles, had it not been for the literary activity of the Louvain professors.

1945 B. Russell Hist. Western Philos. iii. xi. 582 In Germany Leibniz had been taught a neo-scholastic Aristotelian philosophy, of which he retained something throughout his later life.

1994 Homiletic & Pastoral Rev. Feb. 71/1 The authors are almost unanimous in reacting expressly against the neo-scholastic theology.

1888 Mind 13 386 The book just mentioned..suffices to justify the title of Neo-Scholastic here applied to him [sc. Balmès].

1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 June 524/4 It is true that there are certain neo-Scholastics and certain naturalists who divide into neo-Realists and critical Realists influenced both by William James and Mr. Bertrand Russell.

1960 Amer. Q. 12 12 Neo-Scholastics neither strongly opposed nor favored pro-fascism; they shunned political controversy.

1994 Renaissance Q. 47 641 Renaissance philosophers have had no modern constituency—such as classicists or neoscholastics—to blow their horns.