By Hans E. Bynagle
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Like its medieval ancestor, Neo-Scholasticism owes a great deal to Aristotle (St. Thomas is often credited with achieving a great synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy and Christian theology) and to other classical philosophers. However, it has also interacted with contemporary currents in both the Anglo-American and Continental spheres, depending to some extent, as one might expect, on the setting in which it is pursued. Neo-Scholasticism largely lost its quasi-official status with the Second Vatican Council of the early 1960s, and its institutional support within Catholicism gradually weakened in the years following.
This also explains in large part the exclusion of works that require facility in non-Western languages, though my own lack of any such facility plays some part there as well. A second emphasis is recency. In general, the older a work, the more stringently it has been judged as to its importance and usefulness. Availability has also been a positive consideration, to the extent that any English-language reference work in print at the time of compilation (up to early 1996) was almost automatically included.
So far, then, we have demarcated in rough fashion the following philosophical regions: non-Western and Western, and within Western, Continental and Anglo-American. When I wrote the original version of this introduction for the first edition, just over a decade ago, I could add to this philosophical geography, with similarly rough precision, two other major realms. The first was Marxist philosophy, which at that time dominated the Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe. This realm constituted a large and quite active domain, identifiably Western but relatively isolated from both the Continental and Anglo-American domains; extensive contacts between philosophers on either side of the divide, at least, were uncommon.