Hi, I'm Peter Adams, and you're listening to The History of Philosophy Podcasts, brought

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in Munich, online at historyofilosophy.net.

In today's episode, one way or another, Northern Scholasticism.

A friend of mine has a theory about why so many philosophy departments are driven by

factional dispute.

The less money is available, the more people fight over it.

Many is the university whose great thinkers have gone to war over a hiring procedure,

or just the catering budget.

Sometimes admittedly, the conflicts are more high-minded.

These may split along ideological lines, like that between the so-called Continental

and Analytic approaches, or between historians of ideas, and colleagues who think that worthwhile

philosophy started being produced at around the same time as color televisions.

And as those continental types would say, Prusa-shange, Prusa-selem-en-shos.

For you, analytic philosophers out there, this means the more things change, the more they

stay the same.

Because as it turns out, rivalries between university philosophers are as old as philosophy

at universities.

Already in the 13th century, academia wasn't livened by antagonism between the arts and

theology faculties and between secular masters and mendicant friars.

And of course, universities were one of the most important contexts for the competition

between scholastics and humanists in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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