A Short History of Medieval Philosophy - The Middle Ages and General Characteristics of Medieval Philosophy - Medieval Inquisition
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian Dominican theologian and Roman Catholic saint, the foremost medieval Scholastic. He was responsible for the classical systematization of Latin theology, and he wrote some of the most gravely beautiful eucharistic hymns in the church’s liturgy. Learn more about Aquinas’s life and work.
The Problem of Universals posits two theories about the nature of reality: nominalism and realism, that oppose each other and argue the question of whether “universal” things are in fact “real.”
The Middle Ages, in their philosophy and theology, were the true "Age of Reason." Our own day, for all of our science, relies more on "faith." So says David Breitenbeck, though he doesn't quite have the right definition of "faith."
Western Philosophy Timeline. Continental Philosophy. Hellenistic/ Medieval. Rationalists. Empiricists. Kant. Ancient. Plotinus Augustine Anselm Abelard Aquinas Ockham. Descartes Leibniz Spinoza. Locke Berkeley Hume. Kant. Plato Aristotle. Analytic Philosophy.
