Abstract

This is a new impression of a Belgian work of 1903, translated by the late Dr. Peter Coffey in 1907, which presented an overall survey by the expert historian, Professor de Wulf of the common nature, methods and main disciplines of medieval Aristotelian philosophy and of its modern revival, especially in the University of Louvain some fifty years ago. Though it is now inevitably dated, especially concerning neoscholasticism, it is still a valuable introduction for the lay student to the common spirit and organization of intellectual studies in the middle ages, when theology fertilized without smothering philosophy and philosophers exhibited a living diversity within a solid common tradition of wisdom.