Excerpt from Scholasticism Old and New, an Introduction to Scholastic: Philosophy Medieval and Modern My object in translating Professor De Wulf's Introduction a la Philosophie Neo-scolastique has been fourfold: firstly, to give the advocates and supporters of modern systems of philosophy, as opposed to "scholasticism" - whether in its medieval or in its modern form - an opportunity of obtaining better and more authentic information about the latter system than books in English are usually found to contain; secondly, to help students of scholastic philosophy to take in the main principles of scholasticism in one connected view, and to equip them with a more accurate historical and critical appreciation of the system than they are ever likely to derive from an unaided study of stereotyped manuals; thirdly, to give all English readers interested in philosophy of whatsoever kind an insight into the meaning, the spirit and the progress of the movement which has been developing during the last quarter of a century for the revival of scholastic philosophy; fourthly, to prepare the way for translations or adaptations of the Louvain Cours de philosophie, and to draw attention to the value of the work already done and likely to be done in the well-known Belgian centre of the new scholasticism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."