Scholasticism If you can conceive of a God, does it prove one must exist? If we cannot see a moral truth does that mean it can't be? Are we one universal humanity or are we differentiated individuals? These are some of the questions that caused the development of Scholasticism, the intellectual discipline which sought to bridge the gap between religion and reason. Scholastic Philosophy is the love, desire and pursuit of wisdom. Taken in its …
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…life. Scholasticism also helped produce the well-developed universities. It gave us the love, desire and pursuit of wisdom needed to acquire new knowledge and ideas. The significance of the Scholastic movement implies the acceptance of the following fundamental doctrines: that there exist truths that man knows and also revealed truths of faith, and that reason is the man's natural capacity to grasp the real world. The joining of faith and reason is an endless battle.