Neo-Scholasticism

Question 0

When did scholasticism enter curricula?

Answer 0

Thirteenth century

Question 1

Scholasticism

Answer 1

Intellectual movement
Western Europe
1050-1350

Question 2

What were the scholars interested in?

Answer 2

Proving existing patterns wrong

Question 3

How did the scholastics seek to organize the data of revelation?

Answer 3

By the use of Aristotelian deductive logic

They wanted to harmonize the ideas of revelation and the philosophy of Aristotle

Question 4

Thomas Aquinas

Answer 4

The foremost scholar in this crisis

1225 to 1274.

Question 5

What was the basic approach developed by Aquinas?

Answer 5

That a person should require as much knowledge as possible through the use of human reason and then rely on faith.

Question 6

What did the philosophy of Aquinas become?

Answer 6

The official philosophic position of the Roman Catholic church

Question 7

What is the essence of scholasticism

Answer 7

Rationalism

Question 8

What is neoscholasticism in terms of scholasticism

Answer 8

It’s a new form of scholasticism with an emphasis and appeal to human reason

A modern statement of a traditional philosophy

Question 9

What are the two parts of the metaphysics of neoscholastics

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1. The natural world that is open to reason

2. The supernatural realm which is understood through intuition, revelation, and faith.

Question 10

How do you neoscholastics hold the nature of the universe

Answer 10

To be permanent and unchanging

Question 11

Which are of a higher order: analytics statements or synthetic statements?

Answer 11

Analytic statements, because the form the first principles.

Question 12

For neoscholasticism how can truth be known

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Through reason and intuition.

Question 13

Neoscholasticism and religion:

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Adds supernatural revelation as a source of knowledge that can put finite humans in contact with the mind of God.

Question 14

What two things does both branches I’m neoscholasticism rely heavily upon?

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Reason and did the deductive forms of Aristolian logic

Question 15

Is induction rejected in neoscholasticism?

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No, since information gained through the senses forms a part of the raw material used in deductive thinking.

Question 16

What is the central pillar and both neoscholasticism metaphysics and epistemology, and ethics?

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Reason

Question 17

The life that is in harmony with reason.

Answer 17

What is the moral life and neoscholasticism?

Question 18

What are good people according to neoscholasticism?

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The ones who desire and wills our sub servient to their intellects if they know what is right they will do it

Question 19

What are both branches a new scholasticism constant in?

Answer 19

They are consistent in the relationship between the philosophical stance and their educational recommendations

Question 20

What is the rule our responsibility of the school in neoscholasticism?

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To help the student develop these capacities of acquiring truth and knowledge and becoming a spiritual being and they relate to God

Question 21

What is the job teachers in neoscholasticism?

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They are mental disciplinarians with the capability of developing reason, memory, and willpower in their students.

Question 22

What Do secular neoscholastics insist

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Since humans are rational beings the curriculum should give priority to the cultivation of their rational aspects.

Question 23

Does neoscholasticism have an absolute truth?

Answer 23

Yes.

Question 24

What are the two functions of new scholastic tradition subject matter

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1. to explain the world to the student

2. to train the intellect to understand that world