Period
Medieval
529 – c. 1400 CE
Philosophy in Latin Christendom, shaped by the recovery of Aristotle and the rise of the universities, and culminating in the scholastic syntheses of the thirteenth century.
Medieval philosophy in the West was closely bound up with Christian theology. From the twelfth century onwards, Latin translations of Aristotle and of Arabic philosophers such as Avicenna and Averroes transformed the curriculum of the new universities, and scholastic thinkers developed rigorous methods of argument to reconcile reason and faith.
- Traditions
- Western
Philosophers
- Thomas Aquinasc. 1225 – 1274
- William of Ockhamc. 1287 – 1347
Sources
- John Marenbon, Medieval Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Anthony Kenny, A New History of Western Philosophy, vol. 2: Medieval Philosophy, Oxford University Press