neo-Scholasticism

[nee-oh-skuh-las-tuh-siz-uhm]

noun

Philosophy, Theology.

1. a contemporary application of Scholasticism to modern problems and life.

Other Word Forms

• neo-Scholastic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of neo-Scholasticism¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

The subject of scholastic philosophy now more or less claims attention here, since the coming to our country of the most distinguished exponent of Neo-scholasticism.

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Kant's undertaking was aimed at the destruction of a non-experiential science from concepts, and if it has not succeeded in preventing the neo-Scholasticism of the Fichtean school, with its overdrawn attempts to revive a deductive knowledge of the absolute, this has been chiefly due to the false, non-empirical method of the great critic of reason.

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