Scholasticism Quotes:

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

- Miguel de Unamuno

topic: Soul, Atheism, Criticism, Theological, Scholasticism

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

- Rodney Stark

source: Rodney Stark (2014). “How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity”, p.103, Open Road Media

topic: Religious, Taken, Mean, Scholasticism

One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals. Education was this no longer directed toward people who were to be educated with a view to become fully developed human beings, but to specialists, in other that they might learn how to train other specialists. This is the danger of "Scholasticism," that philosophical tendency which began to be sketched at the end of antiquity, developed in the Middle Ages, and whose presence is still recognizable in philosophy today.

- Pierre Hadot

topic: Philosophy, Philosophical, Views, Scholasticism

I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work in my discipline, which strikes me as a kind of medieval scholasticism of a special kind.

- James C. Scott

source: Source: www.gastronomica.org

topic: Discipline, Bored, Political, Scholasticism

Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society.

- Vladimir Lenin

topic: Philosophy, Party, Struggle, Scholasticism

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Age, Looks, Too Much, Modern Music, Scholasticism

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

- Alan Watts

topic: Together, World, Letters, Empiricism, Scholasticism

One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes, cold scholasticism, or an isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.

- Che Guevara

topic: Moving, Order, Justice, Scholasticism