Scholasticism

/skəlˈɑːstɪsˌɪzəm/

/skəlˈæstɪsˌɪzəm/

[noun]

Scholasticism

[NOUN]

orthodoxy of a scholastic variety

synonyms : academicism

academism

a system of philosophy based on religious scripts and principles and Aristotelian logic, taught in medieval European universities

Examples

1. That pretty much ended Timbuktu's reign as the center or scholasticism of this part of the world.

2. Socrates was right, you can have an information dystopia and we have had it in history, it's called scholasticism where the written word superseded observables.

3. You start at age five, or 10, or something, and then you spend 13 years studying the basics, scholasticism, and then begin meditation programs.

4. Humanists turned away from the Middle-Ages’ isolated scholasticism and science-based model and preferred studying history, poetry, literature, art, grammar, language, and morality.