Western Civilization I / Unit 11 WC1 1031 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Scholasticism: Lecture, Disputation, Law
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The idea
Scholasticism applied Aristotle's logic to scripture. The cathedral-school method by about eleven hundred: the lecture, a reading with authorities; meditation; then disputation, debate with evidence. Italian lawyers revived Roman law the same way by the twelfth century.
In practice
Anselm's argument for God from reason alone, on the primary layer.
Where people slip
Anselm is unwitnessed; Fordham's Proslogion is the source.
Your place on the trail
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