Scholasticism
The catalogue includes 5 thinkers in Scholasticism.
How these pages are made
Each school page lists the thinkers in our catalogue who belong to this tradition (primary school or recorded affiliation). Dates, works and bios come from the same catalogue as the app. We do not write original essays about the school.
Thinkers in this tradition
- Duns Scotus1265 – 1308
Duns Scotus (c. 1265–1308) was a Scottish Franciscan philosopher and theologian known as the 'Subtle Doctor' for the intricacy of his arguments. In his Ordinatio and the Treatise on the First Principle he defended the…
- Moses Maimonides1138 – 1204
Moses Maimonides (1138–1204) was a Jewish philosopher, jurist and physician, born in Córdoba and active in Egypt, and the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. His Mishneh Torah codified the whole of…
- Roger Bacon1220 – 1292
Roger Bacon (c. 1220–1292) was an English Franciscan friar known as Doctor Mirabilis, the 'wonderful teacher'. In his Opus Majus he urged that knowledge be grounded in experience, mathematics and the study of languages,…
- Thomas Aquinas1225 – 1274
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and the greatest systematic thinker of medieval Christianity. In his monumental Summa Theologiae he synthesized Aristotle's philosophy with Christian doctrine,…
- William of Ockham1285 – 1349
William of Ockham (c. 1285–1349) was an English Franciscan friar and one of the greatest medieval logicians. He is remembered for 'Ockham's razor', the principle that explanations should not multiply entities beyond…