<span>Scholasticism is a philosophy that centers mainly on tradition, i.e. a mindset that is resistant to new ideas. However, it's prevalence in the middle ages/early Renaissance is also directly responsible - through push-back against the philosophy - for humanism, deism and arguably democracy.</span>
Answer: Scholasticism introduced (a) Acceptance or defense or Catholic dogma, or tradition, (b) Acceptance of classical philosophy (such as of Aristotle) into biblical theology, (c) Using dialectical thinking and reasoning to introduce humanistic thinking into biblical interpretation, (d) creating a distinction between "natural" and "revealed" theology. (e) The tendency to dispute biblical truth in minute detail
The capital city in the Tang dynasty was Chang'an, a huge trading center, with a population of more than 1 million. The capital city in the Song dynasty was Kaifeng, had just about 1 million people.
One example was during the Marbury vs. Madison case in 1803
where the court declared that the Judiciary Act of 1789 was contradictory with
the Constitution making it invalid. This
was because the Court had the authority to assert that an act of Congress to be
annulled if it was revealed to conflict with the Constitution.
