Scholastic Philosophy

[Anonymous No.12610913]

I’m didsappointed by the lack of love for Scholastic philosophy on this board. There really is nothing that can match it- even Analytic philosophers don’t come close to Schokastics as far as adherence to logical principles goes (though I do think that there are a lot of parallels between scholastic and analytic philosophy)

It would be especially useful today if people would bother to reference it. Even in our contemporary secular state, the tension between distributive justice and commutative justice is a big issue and one that was covered very thoroughly by Aquinas.

Also, Scholastics thread

[Anonymous No.12610916]

>>12610913
>as far as adherence to logical principles goes
>Aristotelian logic

this must be bait

[Yeet Yeet No.12610923]

Scholasticism doesn't hold up today. Reconciling reason and faith is an impossible task. If you don't believe me, go read Occam. Scholasticism makes no sense if you don't already accept the tenants of the christian faith before you begin reasoning.

[Anonymous No.12610932]

>>12610923
Die tripfag

[Yeet Yeet No.12610941]

>>12610932
wtf is a tripfag

[Anonymous No.12610942]

>>12610932
he didn't use a tripcode u fucking reddit ass bitch

[Anonymous No.12610959]

>>12610923
Ok but not all Schokastic philosophy deals explicitly with faith. Like I said, Aquinas’s writings on the common good have particular relevance to today’s politics.
Also Ockham is shit, no one cares what he thinks.

[Anonymous No.12610960]

>>12610942
What's your sexuality?

[Anonymous No.12610966]

>>12610916
not sure what you’re getting at.

[Anonymous No.12610989]

>>12610913
Yes and better not fucking do it.

[Anonymous No.12611047]

>>12610913
The scholastics are fun. You need to read them if you want to understand Descartes and Spinoza to a meaningful degree. The ontological argument is obviously now a meme but you have to admire its cleverness when taking historical context into account.

[Anonymous No.12611048]

>>12610959
This is a good point

[Anonymous No.12611448]

>talking to smug neo-thomist classmate
>he says neo-scholasticism solves all problems and is the true end of philosophy
>won't stop telling me to read feser, the bible, and all 600 volumes of the collected works of thomas aquinas
>i ask him how the scholastics account for the kantian critique of reason as adequate to the world in itself
>he has no answer, mutters something about a blogpost by feser
>ask him how the scholastics respond to the critiques of substance ontology by the likes of heidegger
>he begins to sweat
>has no answer
>"ontology?" he says, "y-you mean like... ontological arguments?"
>ask him whether the scholastics or neo-scholastics have any response to contemporary philosophy of language and its critiques of linguistic adequacy to reality, or of the basic problem of dualism
>ask him if he even has a response to cartesian materialism
>ask him on what a priori grounds aristotle's ontology is justified
>ask him what sources he relies on for his assumption that aristotelian categories were even ontological rather than linguistic and heuristic
>he is now panting and hyperventilating
>begins defensively regurgitating memes he heard on neo-thomist reddit pages, like an octopus spraying ink
>"t-the disputatio is the superior form for writing philosophy! spanish jesuits in the 18th century already proved kant wrong about everything!!"
>runs away crying
>talk to his friends to make sure he won't kill himself (because i'm a christian)
>they cower in fear
>tell me he converted to catholicism just last month and started LARPing hard
>later i find out he became a process theologian for one week and then got deep into dialectical theology and altizer
>now i hear he's a buddhist selling crystals on the internet

[Anonymous No.12611563]

>>12610913
I know nothing about Scholastic philosophy, and I’ve heard only of Abelard, Occam, and Aquinas. Are there any must-reads? Started with the Greeks and am medium-well read in existentialism (including the Christians like Kierkegaard)

[Anonymous No.12611623]

>>12611448
based