Word Meanings - NEO-SCHOLASTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pert. to Neo-Scholasticism.

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• SCHOLASTICISM
  The method or subtitles the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy. The spirit of the old scholasticism . . . spurned laborious investigation and slow induction. J. P. Smith.
• NEO-SCHOLASTICISM
  The modern revival of the Scholastic philosophy, esp. of that of Thomas Aquinas, with critical revision to suit the exigencies of the general advance in learning. The Neo-Scholastic movement received a great impetus from Leo XIII.'s interest in it.