Dialectic since the Sixteenth Century

At Paris in the middle years of the thirteenth century the tendency towards harmonising philosophy and theology reached its perfection, one could say, in the scholasticism of Aquinas which implied the harmony of faith and reason. The beginning of the decline of scholasticism has been attributed to the doctrines of Duns Scotus (d. 1308) and William of Ockham (d. 1349), both of whom reintroduce the dualism between faith and reason which for centuries scholasticism had tried to overcome. After the fifteenth century, it is sometimes said, scholasticism ceased in effect to exist, except perhaps in its lone, late champion, Suarez. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.