Question: How can anyone today consider himself a serious student of human thought while roundly ignoring this illustrious list of some of the greatest and foundational minds of our civilization.?
Answer: anti-Catholic bigotry! The greatest source of darkness for the mind of contemporary man.
New Year's Resolution suggestion: Read some original work of these great pioneers of human thought for insights on how to progress in our present day educational crises!
Rhabanus Maurus Praeceptor Germaniae
Abelard Peripateticus Palatinus
Alan of Lille Doctor
universalis
Averrroes Commentator
Alexander of Hales Doctor
irrefragibilis
St. Bonaventure Doctor
seraphicus
St. Thomas Aquinas Doctor
angelicus and Doctor communis
Roger Bacon Doctor
mirabilis
Richard of Middleton Doctor
solidus
Raymond Lull Doctor
illuminatus
Giles of Rome Doctorfundatissimus
Henry of Ghent Doctor solemnis
Duns Scotus Doctor subtilis
Durandus Doctor
modernus, Doctor rosolutissimus (later)
Peter Aureoli Doctor
facundus
William of Ockham Venerabilis inceptor
Antoine
Andre Doctor
dulcifluus
Francis de Marcia Doctor succinctus
John of Mirecourt Monachus albus
Gregory of Rimini Doctor
authenticus
John Ruysbroeck Doctor
admirabilis
Denis the Carthusian Doctor ecstaticus
John Gerson Doctor christianissimus
Jacob Bohme Philosophus teutonicus
Francis Suarez Doctor eximius
The big modern lie, which has it's roots in the false renaissance (contrary to the true renaissance which began in Italy in the 14th century, having it's roots in the 13th century intellectual movement which baptized [i.e. purified and appropriated] ancient thought [viz. Aristotle]; founded upon such literary giants as Petrarch, Boccaccio and Dante [cf. Pastor History of the Popes, vol. I p. 1ff.], protestant revolt and french revolution and "enlightenment" has continually had the exclusion of Catholic thinkers as a fundamental tenet: Catholica non leguntur! (Catholic authors are not to be read) That was the topic of the notoriously misunderstood (and largely unread) Regensburg Address by Pope Benedict XVI.
That has always been the only absolute tenet of Protestantism (viz. it's fundamental bias against all authentic Catholic thought) and seems to be the only present day accepted bigotry--our modern "enlightenment" of ignorance! Reject Catholicism at all cost, even at the expense of reason! So that reason, ultimately, is not the modern God, but rather the Anti-Christ is.
I was reminded of this when I read aghast about the recent death of the Jewish hardcore porn pioneer and anti-Catholic bigot Al Goldstein who famously said "The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks."
For the modern mind to be truly free, the spell of Christophobia must be broken. It is a false and dirty openness which excludes the illustrious heritage of Christian civilization. We can change this, one by one!
Happy New Year! And may God bless your research into these largely neglected treasures of Western civilization. Enjoy!