Aristotelianism

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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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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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Nous centralIn Aristotelianism
this entity surface form: Aristotelian philosophy
Alexander of Aphrodisias influenced Aristotelianism
this entity surface form: Byzantine Aristotelians
John Philoponus philosophicalTradition Aristotelianism
this entity surface form: Aristotelianism (critical)
Francesco Patrizi opposedTo Aristotelianism
this entity surface form: Aristotelian scholasticism
Cynic movement contrastsWith Aristotelianism
First Treatise on the Creation of the World influencedBy Aristotelianism
this entity surface form: Aristotelian philosophy
al-Muallim al-Thani linkedConcept Aristotelianism
this entity surface form: Aristotelianism in Islamic philosophy
Second Master associatedWith Aristotelianism
Kitab al-Huruf philosophicalTradition Aristotelianism
Kitab al-Huruf influencedBy Aristotelianism
this entity surface form: Aristotelian logic
Ibn Bajjah philosophicalSchool Aristotelianism
Levi ben Gershom philosophicalSchool Aristotelianism
Scholastic logic basedOn Aristotelianism
this entity surface form: Aristotelian syllogistic
Aben Rushd schoolTradition Aristotelianism
Middle Commentaries on Aristotle philosophicalTradition Aristotelianism
this entity surface form: Averroism
Siger of Brabant philosophicalSchool Aristotelianism
Democrates Secundus by Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda philosophicalTradition Aristotelianism
subject surface form: Democrates Secundus
Atomism opposedBy Aristotelianism
this entity surface form: Aristotelian hylomorphism
Integral Humanism influencedBy Aristotelianism
this entity surface form: Aristotelian philosophy
Art and Scholasticism influencedBy Aristotelianism
this entity surface form: Aristotelian metaphysics
The Person and the Common Good influencedBy Aristotelianism
this entity surface form: Aristotelian philosophy
Five Ways uses Aristotelianism
this entity surface form: Aristotelian metaphysics
argument from degrees of perfection influencedBy Aristotelianism
this entity surface form: Aristotelian metaphysics
Thomism influencedBy Aristotelianism
Joseph Owens fieldOfWork Aristotelianism
this entity surface form: Aristotelian philosophy
Joseph Owens philosophicalTradition Aristotelianism