Aristotelianism

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philosophical tradition school of philosophy

Aristotelianism is the philosophical tradition based on the works and methods of Aristotle, emphasizing empirical observation, formal logic, and systematic inquiry into nature, ethics, and metaphysics.

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Aristotelian metaphysics 2
Renaissance Aristotelianism 2
Aristotelian logic 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf philosophical tradition ⓘ
school of philosophy ⓘ
basedOn works of Aristotle ⓘ
centralConcept eudaimonia ⓘ
form ⓘ
golden mean ⓘ
matter ⓘ
substance ⓘ
teleology ⓘ
virtue ⓘ
concerns causality ⓘ
ethically good life ⓘ
nature of being ⓘ
developedFrom Peripatetic school ⓘ
emphasizes empirical observation ⓘ
formal logic ⓘ
systematic inquiry ⓘ
field epistemology ⓘ
ethics ⓘ
logic ⓘ
metaphysics ⓘ
natural philosophy ⓘ
historicalPeriod Hellenistic philosophy ⓘ
influenced Islamic philosophy ⓘ
Jewish philosophy ⓘ
Scholastic theology ⓘ
surface form: Scholasticism

Neo-scholasticism ⓘ
surface form: Thomism

early modern science ⓘ
medieval Christian theology ⓘ
influencedBy Platonism ⓘ
Presocratic philosophers ⓘ
surface form: Pre-Socratic philosophy
majorFigure Alexander of Aphrodisias ⓘ
Averroes ⓘ
Avicenna ⓘ
John Philoponus ⓘ
St. Thomas Aquinas ⓘ
surface form: Thomas Aquinas
methodologicalFeature deductive reasoning from first principles ⓘ
systematic classification of knowledge ⓘ
namedAfter Aristotle ⓘ
opposedBy Platonism ⓘ
Stoicism ⓘ
modern empiricism in some respects ⓘ
originatedIn Greek Antiquity ⓘ
surface form: Ancient Greece
revivedIn 13th century ⓘ
Middle Ages ⓘ
uses act–potency distinction ⓘ
four causes doctrine ⓘ
hylomorphism ⓘ
substance–accident distinction ⓘ
syllogistic logic ⓘ

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Lyceum of Aristotle → associatedWith → Aristotelianism ⓘ
this entity surface form: Aristotelian philosophy
Renaissance Platonism → contrastedWith → Aristotelianism ⓘ
this entity surface form: Renaissance Aristotelianism
Epicureanism → contrastsWith → Aristotelianism ⓘ
Classical period → hasPhilosophicalSchool → Aristotelianism ⓘ
Classical Greek philosophy → hasSchool → Aristotelianism ⓘ
Commentaries on Aristotle → influenced → Aristotelianism ⓘ
this entity surface form: Renaissance Aristotelianism
Book II: Of Reasoning → influencedBy → Aristotelianism ⓘ
this entity surface form: Aristotelian logic
Neoplatonism → influencedBy → Aristotelianism ⓘ
this entity surface form: Aristotelian metaphysics
Averroes → movement → Aristotelianism ⓘ
Averroes → movement → Aristotelianism ⓘ
this entity surface form: Averroism
this entity surface form: Aristotelianism in Judaism
Averroes → philosophicalSchool → Aristotelianism ⓘ
John of Damascus → philosophicalSchool → Aristotelianism ⓘ
this entity surface form: Christian Aristotelianism
Pope Leo XIII → promotedPhilosophy → Aristotelianism ⓘ
this entity surface form: Thomism
Aristotle → schoolTradition → Aristotelianism ⓘ
Avicenna → schoolTradition → Aristotelianism ⓘ
this entity surface form: Avicennism
this entity surface form: Aristotelian metaphysics