Sentence examples for traditional scholastic from inspiring English sources

A new set of notes, which he entitled "Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae" ("Certain Philosophical Questions"), begun sometime in 1664, usurped the unused pages of a notebook intended for traditional scholastic exercises; under the title he entered the slogan "Amicus Plato amicus Aristoteles magis amica veritas" ("Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my best friend is truth").

He departed from the traditional Scholastic curriculum of medieval institutions, made philosophy independent of theology, and lectured in vernacular German rather than in the customary Latin, thus influencing Halle to become during the 18th century the leading centre for the new cultural thought in Protestant Germany.

He was therefore opposed not only to Descartes, but also to traditional scholastic views.

Under the tutelage of the famous mathematician G.L. Lesage, he became acquainted with traditional scholastic metaphysics.

Poulain (sometimes spelled Poullain) was born in Paris in 1647 and followed a traditional scholastic curriculum in college.

Even before he began his studies at Paris, Erasmus had expressed hostility to the traditional scholastic theology based on questions, disputations, and reliance on Aristotle.

This refuted the traditional assumption of scholastic physics that the power of gravitational attraction remained constant with distance whenever it applied between two bodies, such as was assumed by Kepler and also by Galileo in his mistaken universal law that gravitational fall is uniformly accelerated, and also by Galileo's student Borrelli in his 1666 celestial mechanics.

In addition to the traditional catalog order forms, Scholastic has upgraded its online order form to include an e-commerce option called COOL (for Clubs Ordering Online), in which teachers can recommend books to students and to parents based on the students' age and interests.

Tachau (1988) discusses his wide influence on the scholastic tradition.

Gersonides' philosophical ideas went against the grain of traditional Jewish thought; he also challenged scholastic thought.

Of course, Scholastic spent heavily on more traditional measures, like printing a foil-embossed cover with a newly commissioned illustration.