Gersonides' philosophical ideas went against the grain of traditional Jewish thought; he also challenged scholastic thought.
Since the theologians had asserted that Aristotle had erred in theology, and pointed out the negative consequences of uncritical acceptance of his ideas, scholastic philosophers such as Duns Scotus and William of Ockham (both Franciscan friars) believed he might also be mistaken in matters of philosophy.
In their own time, however, the epithet "metaphysical" was used pejoratively: in 1630 the Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden objected to those of his contemporaries who attempted to "abstract poetry to metaphysical ideas and scholastic quiddities".
Kepler's complete corpus can be hardly summarized as a "system" of ideas like scholastic philosophy or the new Cartesian systems which arose in the second half of the 17th century.
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But Augustine's ideas powerfully influenced the scholastic philosophers of the Middle Ages, and they in turn laid the ground for European humanism to blaze forth about 500 years ago...at any rate, so conventional wisdom goes.
Without a doubt Oresme is one of the most eminent scholastic philosophers, famous for his original ideas, his independent thinking and his critique of several Aristotelian tenets.
The scholastics inherited from Avicenna the principal idea that the activity of the human intellect can be differentiated into different phases of gradual development and into different acts of syllogistic reasoning (Hasse 1999 and 2000, 191 200).
What arrives at our faculty of thinking from the senses is not ideas such as we form them in our thought, as the scholastic empiricists held, but rather only various particular motions emitted by external objects.
