Philosophy Quote by F. P. Ramsey

“The chief danger to our philosophy, apart from laziness and woolliness, is scholasticism, the essence of which is treating what is vague as if…

— Anonymous

The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and…

— Rodney Stark

“As most Van Tilians realize, Van Til fought diligently to purge the Reformed tradition from the remnants of scholasticism that remained in the thought…

— William D. Dennison

Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last…

— Vladimir Lenin

I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work in my…

— James C. Scott

“Despite scholasticism or skepticism, skepticism is the confirmation and proof of existence. It follows that if we affirm and confirm the existence, we must,…

— Dejan Stojanovic

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

— Alan Watts

Equality assertion of all cultures is disrespectful against human achievements. It is absurdity that the philosophy which got tangled at the level of scholasticism…

— Ilkin Santak

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

— Miguel de Unamuno

One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes,…

— Che Guevara

“The rising influence of lay piety is particularly marked upon the Mariological controversies of the late medieval period. Two rival positions developed: the maculist…

— Alister E. McGrath

“The dangers of sophistry and scholasticism are present in the possibility of philosophy itself.”

— Susan Neiman

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals. Education was…

— Pierre Hadot