Abstract

"Medieval thought, intimately connected to life and illuminated by faith, gave rise to a profoundly coherent doctrinal system of great amplitude: Scholasticism, which brought diverse fields of knowledge under one perspective. This system did not escape the influence of ideologies which, affecting its unity, consequently divided it into two currents of thought which, from that moment forward, spanned the entire history of philosophy, without ever being unified: on one hand, empiricist Nominalism, and on the other, rationalist Ontologism. This article seeks to identify the origin of these currents that divided Scholastic unity, and point out the consequences, both theoretical and existential, of this rupture."