Sentence examples for scholastic discourse from inspiring English sources

Both points combined resulted in a general tendency towards an increasing complexity and refinement of the scholastic discourse.

It immediately garnered vehement censure and counter-argument from scholar-monks of traditional schools, attesting to the impact Hōnen's nembutsu teaching was already having in Japanese society, but also to the recognition of the forms of scholastic discourse and rational argument into which his thought had been cast.

In the developing world, ethical issues seem to be ignored in public health programming and even in scholastic discourse.

There seems to be no such reluctance to engage in political discourse at Scholastic, the children's publishing, education and media company.

The discourse of the Master addresses a scholastic readership.

Louis Althusser, the founder of a hermetic type of Marxism whose gibberish blighted academic discourse for a generation, resembles "a minor medieval scholastic, desperately scrabbling around in categories of his own imagining", whose theories are worth less than "the most obscure theological speculation, which usually had as its goal something of significance".

In the sixteenth century, the discourse on probability underwent significant changes, on the scholastic as well as the humanist side.

Vives' criticism of scholastic logic hinges on a profound analysis of the arts of discourse.

Medieval scholastic uses of probability evolved into the significantly different probability discourses of early modern scholasticism and humanism, which both were finally eclipsed by modern quantitative notions of probability in the eighteenth century.

Although he claimed no special expertise in rhetorical learning and had received a traditional scholastic education, not a humanistic one, Luther understood the modes of rhetorical discourse very well and shrewdly shifted the discussion from Erasmus' deliberative mode to Cicero's judicial mode, which aimed not to moderate and reconcile but to win decisions in the law courts.

(G II 97/AG 86) In the period of the Discourse on Metaphysics and Correspondence with Arnauld, Leibniz appeals to certain Scholastic notions, chief among them, the notion of a substantial form.