Neo-Scholasticism Flashcards
When did scholasticism enter curricula?
Thirteenth century
Scholasticism
Intellectual movement
Western Europe
1050-1350
What were the scholars interested in?
Proving existing patterns wrong
How did the scholastics seek to organize the data of revelation?
By the use of Aristotelian deductive logic
They wanted to harmonize the ideas of revelation and the philosophy of Aristotle
Thomas Aquinas
The foremost scholar in this crisis
1225 to 1274.
What was the basic approach developed by Aquinas?
That a person should require as much knowledge as possible through the use of human reason and then rely on faith.
What did the philosophy of Aquinas become?
The official philosophic position of the Roman Catholic church
What is the essence of scholasticism
Rationalism
What is neoscholasticism in terms of scholasticism
It’s a new form of scholasticism with an emphasis and appeal to human reason
A modern statement of a traditional philosophy
What are the two parts of the metaphysics of neoscholastics
- The natural world that is open to reason
2. The supernatural realm which is understood through intuition, revelation, and faith.
How do you neoscholastics hold the nature of the universe
To be permanent and unchanging
Which are of a higher order: analytics statements or synthetic statements?
Analytic statements, because the form the first principles.
For neoscholasticism how can truth be known
Through reason and intuition.
Neoscholasticism and religion:
Adds supernatural revelation as a source of knowledge that can put finite humans in contact with the mind of God.
What two things does both branches I’m neoscholasticism rely heavily upon?
Reason and did the deductive forms of Aristolian logic
Is induction rejected in neoscholasticism?
No, since information gained through the senses forms a part of the raw material used in deductive thinking.
What is the central pillar and both neoscholasticism metaphysics and epistemology, and ethics?
Reason
The life that is in harmony with reason.
What is the moral life and neoscholasticism?
What are good people according to neoscholasticism?
The ones who desire and wills our sub servient to their intellects if they know what is right they will do it
What are both branches a new scholasticism constant in?
They are consistent in the relationship between the philosophical stance and their educational recommendations
What is the rule our responsibility of the school in neoscholasticism?
To help the student develop these capacities of acquiring truth and knowledge and becoming a spiritual being and they relate to God
What is the job teachers in neoscholasticism?
They are mental disciplinarians with the capability of developing reason, memory, and willpower in their students.
What Do secular neoscholastics insist
Since humans are rational beings the curriculum should give priority to the cultivation of their rational aspects.
Does neoscholasticism have an absolute truth?
Yes.
What are the two functions of new scholastic tradition subject matter
- to explain the world to the student
2. to train the intellect to understand that world
