Editing School of thought

{{Short description|Group sharing common opinion}}
{{about|the perspective|other uses|School of thought (disambiguation) }}
A  '''school of thought''', or '''intellectual tradition''', is the perspective of a group of people who share common characteristics of [[opinion]] or outlook of a [[philosophy]],<ref name="CUP">{{cite web |title=school of thought |url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/school-of-thought |website=Dictionary Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |access-date=3 October 2021 |archive-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214134029/https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/school-of-thought |url-status=live }}</ref> [[List of academic disciplines|discipline]], [[belief]], [[social movement]], [[Schools of economic thought|economics]], [[cultural movement]], or [[art movement]].<ref name="FE">{{cite news |last1=Hattangadi |first1=Vidya |title=Evaluating Mintzberg’s 10 schools of thoughts for strategy formulation |url=https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/evaluating-mintzbergs-10-schools-of-thoughts-for-strategy-formulation/1609541/ |access-date=3 October 2021 |agency=Financial Express |publisher=Indian Express group |date=17 June 2019 |archive-date=16 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116150957/https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/evaluating-mintzbergs-10-schools-of-thoughts-for-strategy-formulation/1609541/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==History==
The phrase has become a common colloquialism which is used to describe those that think alike or those that focus on a common idea.<ref name="Medium">{{cite web |last1=Solci |first1=Valentina |title=Breakdown on the Different Psychological Schools of Thought |url=https://valentinasolci.medium.com/breakdown-on-the-different-psychological-schools-of-thought-270c769752e3 |website=valentinasolci |publisher=Medium |access-date=3 October 2021}}</ref> The term's use is common place.{{According to whom|date=October 2023}}<ref name="FE"/>

Schools are often characterized by their currency, and thus classified into "new" and "old" schools. There is a convention, in political and philosophical fields of thought, to have  "modern" and "classical" schools of thought. An example is the [[social liberalism|modern]] and [[classical liberalism|classical liberals]]. This dichotomy is often a component of [[paradigm shift]]. However, it is rarely the case that there are only two schools in any given field.

Schools are often named after their founders such as the "[[Rinzai school]]" of [[Zen]], named after [[Linji Yixuan]]; and the [[Asharite]] school of [[early Muslim philosophy]], named after [[Abu l'Hasan al-Ashari]]. They are often also named after their places of origin, such as the [[Ionian School (philosophy)|Ionian school]] of [[philosophy]], which originated in [[Ionia]]; the [[Chicago school (architecture)|Chicago school]] of [[architecture]], which originated in [[Chicago, Illinois]]; the [[Prague school]] of linguistics, named after a linguistic circle founded in [[Prague]]; and the [[Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School]], whose representatives lived in [[Tartu]] and [[Moscow]].

An example of a school of thought in Christianity (and [[Neoplatonism and Gnosticism|Gnosticism]]) is [[Neoplatonism and Christianity|Neoplatonism]], which has massively influenced [[Christian thought]], from [[Augustinianism]] to [[Platonism in the Renaissance|Renaissance]]/[[Renaissance humanism|Humanism]] to the present day.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Greek Philosophy—Did It Enrich Christianity? |url=https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1999603?q=Neoplatonism&p=doc |access-date=2022-04-06 |archive-date=2023-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116150957/https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1999603?q=Neoplatonism&p=doc |url-status=live }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Commentary of a philosophical text]]
* [[List of philosophies]]
* [[Mindset]]
* [[Paradigm]]
* [[Philosophical movement]]
* [[Worldview]]

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