Sentences with phrase «abstract scholasticism»

Perspectives in Philosophy Volume 1: A Critique of an abstract Scholasticism and principles towards replacement

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Generations of Catholics, including priests, learned [scholasticism] almost by rote, often ending with a set of abstract propositions which they could not easily relate to the world or to history.

I would suggest, rather, that scholasticism apprehends the abstract potency of the Godhead, while a radical and dialectical theology is in quest of the meaning of the final actualization and realization of that potency, and therefore in quest of the meaning of the ultimate victory of Christ.

Descartes proposed, from the very beginning of his first (unfinished) treatise Rules for the Direction of the Mind in 1628 refounding «deduction», and mathematics, by «intuited» (later «innate», Meditations, 7:64 — 5, 72 — 3) ideas rather than scholasticism's, by now discredited, «abstracted concepts».

Another significant motive for the affirmation of the a priori «Act of Existence» as that which transcends definitive intelligibility was the attempt to handle the difficult fact that scholasticism's approach to such abstract intelligibility of the «essence» prescinds from whether or not that thing actually exists.