Full Idea
There is a broad scholastic tendency to understand Aristotelianism not in abstract, metaphysical terms, but as a concrete, physical theory of the world.
Gist of Idea
Scholastics wanted to treat Aristotelianism as physics, rather than as metaphysics
Source
Robert Pasnau (Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 [2011], 23.5)
Book Reference
Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.538
A Reaction
This seems to give a good explanation of why Aristotelianism plummeted to oblivion in the 17th C. Pasnau obviously wants to revive it, by drawing a sharp line between metaphysics and science. I doubt the line.
Related Idea
Idea 16747 Scholastics made forms substantial, in a way unintended by Aristotle [Pasnau]