Scholasticism

n.

1.

The method or subtilties of the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy. The spirit of the old scholasticism . . . spurned laborious investigation and slow induction. - J. P. Smith.

Noun	1.	Scholasticism - the system of philosophy dominant in medieval Europe; based on Aristotle and the Church Fathers
	2.	scholasticism - orthodoxy of a scholastic variety Synonyms: academicism, academism

natural virtue, philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory