neo-Scholasticism

American

[nee-oh-skuh-las-tuh-siz-uhm] / ˌni oʊ skəˈlæs təˌsɪz əm /

noun

Philosophy, Theology.

a contemporary application of Scholasticism to modern problems and life.

Other Word Forms

neo-Scholastic adjective

Etymology

Origin of neo-Scholasticism

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

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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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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