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Often appears with: reason and the intellect · value of scientific inquiry · scripture and its interpretation · rigourists · religious persecution and toleration · protestant theology · logic, method, and demonstration · jena academia · hugh of st. victor · fate, destiny, and necessity · faith and reason · endless disputes
Usually: argument (2) · crisis of belief (2) · detachment (2) · narrative (1) · curiosity (1) · indignation (1) · skepticism (1)
Berkeley argues that tracing scholastic abstract-general ideas through endless disputes is pointless because they yield little real benefit and often cause confusion or contempt for study.
forth as man, or so far forth as animal without framing the fore-mentioned abstract idea, either of man or of animal, inasmuch as all that is perceived is not considered. 17. ADVANTAGE OF INVESTIGATING THE DOCTRINE OF ABSTRACT GENERAL IDEAS.--It were an endless as well as an useless thing to trace the SCHOOLMEN, those great masters of abstraction, through all the manifold inextricable labyrinths of error and dispute…
The introduction explains the twelfth-century relationship between faith and reason, contrasts “rigourists” with scholastic defenders of philosophy, and frames Abélard as a daring dialectician involved in these conflicts.
Salisbury, Alan of Lille, Gilbert de la Porrée and Hugh of St. Victor prevailed in their contention that philosophers were "_humanae videlicet sapientiae amatores*," while theologians were "*divinae scripturae doctores." Cardinal Mercier, himself the greatest contemporary exponent of Scholastic philosophy, defines philosophy as "the science of the totality of things." The twelfth century was a time when men were str…
Leibniz recounts Protestant disputes over philosophy and theology, including Daniel Hoffmann’s controversy, Paul Slevogt’s early treatise, and the idea that later disputes were misunderstandings rather than doctrinal breaches.
Protestants, and even concerning itself with theology, until the revival of Corpuscular philosophy, which caused that of Ramee to fall into [82] oblivion and weakened the authority of the Peripatetics. 13. Meanwhile sundry Protestant theologians, deviating as far as they could from Scholastic philosophy, which prevailed in the opposite party, went so far as to despise philosophy itself, which to them was suspect. Th…