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Peripateticism

noun
1.
(philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science.  Synonym: Aristotelianism.






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"Peripateticism" Quotes from Famous Books



... merely the Epicureanism of Epicurus, but that of Zeno, Phaedrus, Patro, and Xeno; the doctrines taught in the Lyceum by Cratippus; the new Academicism of Philo as well as that of Arcesilas and Carneades; the medley of Academicism, Peripateticism, and Stoicism put forward by Antiochus in the name of the Old Academy. A systematic attempt to distinguish between the earlier and later forms of doctrine held by these schools is still a great desideratum. Cicero's statements concerning any particular school are generally ...
— Academica • Marcus Tullius Cicero



Words linked to "Peripateticism" :   Aristotelianism, philosophical theory, philosophy, peripatetic, philosophical doctrine



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