The Dumb Ox By Peter Abelard

Scholasticism is the arrangement of religion and the viewpoint educated in medieval European universities, grounded on Aristotelian reason and the works of the early Church Fathers by obligating a strong importance on institution and belief. The medieval universities progressively enhanced in a way to develop knowledge, recognized as scholasticism. One of the main funders that facilitated the enlargement of the scholastic technique of education is Peter Abelard. He functioned on Sic et Non which means “Yes and No”. The scholastic process reinvigorated many professors and students to ponder, hypothesize, and scrutinize to make specifics into a meaningful whole. The key motivation behind this process was having judgment. Scholasticism tried to reunite the new revived philosophy of Aristotle with the evidence of the Church.

Aristotle was a very intelligent Greek philosopher of olden times that has studied many grounds of human knowledge. He had many elements to observations and inferences which have persuasively clarified many wonders of the world. But from the

Thomas Aquinas is the peak of the knowledgeable accomplishments of the middle Ages. Thomas went Cologne and became a student of St Albert the Great. St. Thomas was named “The Dumb Ox” but Albert protected St. Thomas by portending, “This dumb ox will fill the world with his bellowing” (122). St. Thomas did what Albert had been protecting; he instructed many colleges in Europe and transcribed profusely. His “chef-d'oeuvre” was a religious understanding of a twenty-one-volume work known as the Summa Theologica. In his masterpiece, Thomas displayed the rationality of trust and faith and “defended human intelligence as a prelude to faith” (123). Thomas was in service of human motive and being the highest in its private field. Thomas displayed that the discovered realities are not beyond balanced clarification and with faith, the advocates can figure out roughly some of the utmost ambiguities of the