The Scholastics, or Schoolmen, were those Medieval philosophers considered to endlessly reinterpret and comment on Aristotle* but without seeking to test any ideas empirically. Scholasticism was a rigorous analytical approach applied to bring harmony to different texts (especially to align classical texts from Greek philosophy with Christian beliefs, i.e. dogma). The approach dominated European learning for several centuries, but with the enlightenment and the development (rediscovery?*) of empirical approaches to science became seen as too 'dogmatic'.
(* Ironically, Aristotle himself had been a field scientist rather than just an 'armchair' philosopher.)
