SCHOLASTICISM OLD AND NEW AN INTRODUCTION TO SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY MEDIEVAL AND MODERN CLASSIC REPRINT (PAPERBACK)

My object in translating Professor De Wulfs Introduction a laP hilosophie Neo-scolastique has been fourfold :firstly, to give the advocates and supporters of modern systems of philosophy, as opposed to scholasticism whether in its medieval or in its modern form an opportunity of obtaining better and more authentic information about the latter system than books in English are usually found to contain; secondly, to help students of scholastic philosophy to take in the main principles of scholasticism in one connected view, and to equip them with a more accurate historical and critical appreciation of the system than they are ever likely to derive from an unaided study of stereotyped manuals ;thirdly, to give allE nglish readers interested in philosophy of whatsoever kind an insight into the meaning, the spirit and the progress of the move ment which has been developing during the last quarter of a century for the revival of scholastic philosophy ;fourthly, to prepare the way for translations or adaptations of theL ouvain Cours de philosophic, and to draw attention to the value of the work already done and likely to be done in the well-known Belgian centre of the new scholasticism.