Thomas Aquinas and others, philosophically

Usage examples of scholastics.

The hypocrisy and lack of genuine human understanding frequently displayed by arid scholastics and wrangling religious jurisprudents were mocked.

I myself can remember the very moment that I was seduced by this way of thinking: I was fourteen years old, and was wandering around in the Rosenthal outside of Leipzig, ostensibly to smell the blooms but really to prosecute a sort of internal debate in my own mind, between the old ways of the Scholastics and the Mechanical Philosophy of Descartes.

With only this difference: the scholastics had better reasons for the questions they raised—and no specific human lives or fortunes hung on the outcome of their debates.

The Scholastics, not excepting even their Doctor Angelicus, have misunderstood this argument, and have taken it as a paralogism.

The scholastics also knew well from the Aristotelian philosophy the metaphysical proposition that potentiality is nothing by itself, but is clearly one with actuality.

You'll find that my faithful soldiers and clever scholastics know the story by heart.