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Scholasticism is a way of studying big questions — especially questions about God, the world, and how we know things — by reading old books very carefully and arguing from them. It grew in the schools of Europe in the Middle Ages. Teachers and students took writers from long ago (often Aristotle, and Christian writers) and tried to fit the ideas together, ask sharp questions, and answer them in a tidy order. The method loves clear definitions, small distinctions, and debate. People still use the word, sometimes with a little bite, for thinking that stays too close to old books and does not look enough at the living world. It is a university and history word, not everyday talk.
經院哲學（台灣天主教傳統也說「士林哲學」）
組成From scholastic (of that old school of thought) + -ism (a system or way of thinking).
同家族的字
- scholasticthe older adjective; scholasticism is the name of that system
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
scholasticismnoun/skəˈlæstɪˌsɪzəm/
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesA tradition or school of philosophy, originating in the Middle Ages, that combines classical philosophy with Catholic theology.
- Once more, the work exhibits the characteristics which are typical of scholasticism at its best: the appeal to reason, the logical marshaling of arguments, the relentless exploration of the implications of ideas, and the fundamental conviction that, at its heart, the Christian gospel is rational and can be shown to be rational.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。