The human being, from time immemorial, has been very aware of his existence and the environment in which he moves. Reflect constantly on life, death and love; it's almost a necessity to think about every step you take. This is what gave way to philosophy, the art of questioning man and the universe, studying the essence of life, analyzing the causes and consequences of natural events. Philosophy has been practiced since the rise of Ancient Greece, and continues to this day; generally, it is considered as a direct antecedent of alchemy, the basis for the development of current exact sciences.
The scholastic, dominant is the cathedral schools from the eleventh century to the fifteenth century, is a theological and philosophical current that emerged in Europe. It combines Greco-Latin, Jewish and Arab philosophical beliefs, its main characteristic being combining the religious aspect with reasoning. Most detractors accused the movement of moving away from the scientific aspect, since they took the Bible as the main source of knowledge and only from there could any teaching be extracted; However, this also encouraged its followers to speculate and reason, outside the parameters established by the same current.
Around the fourteenth century, William of Ockham, one of the leading exponents of scholasticism at the time, began to question the intelligibility of God; this resulted in the separation of theology and philosophy within the movement, to finally dedicate itself to the agony until the 15th century. Even so, during the Renaissance the second scholasticism was seen; in the nineteenth century, neo-scholasticism was born, which was later renamed, at the beginning of the twentieth century, as neotomism.
