 In both the 17th and 18th centuries, it was responsibility of the main religious orders to teach philosophy in New Spain, in accordance with their specific doctrinal orientation. Franciscans adopted the philosophy of Duns Scotus; Dominicans, that of Thomas Aquinas; and the Jesuits were more receptive to modern philosophy. However, in the 18th century, the most influential philosophers struggled to reconcile the apparent tension between religion and science and between the modern and Scholastic tradition.