The aim of the book is to meet and combat false conceptions, to co-ordinate true notions, and so to furnish the reader with some general information on old and new scholasticism.The advantage of the book is its two-sided perspective that contains historical investigations about the ancient sources of scholastic philosophy and its decline. It also contains a systematic perspective by which the doctrines of scholastic philosophizing are collected systematically. Therefore this book is a scholarly introduction to scholastic philosophy for undergraduates.
This is a reprint of the 1956 Dover edition.