Peripatetic school
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The Peripatetic school was the philosophical tradition founded by Aristotle in ancient Athens, known for its systematic inquiry into logic, metaphysics, ethics, and natural science.
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| instanceOf |
Aristotelian school
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ancient Greek philosophical school → philosophical school → |
| coreText |
Metaphysics
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Nicomachean Ethics NERFINISHED → On the Soul → Organon → Physics → Politics → |
| country |
Ancient Greece
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| doctrine |
doctrine of the four causes
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hylomorphism → syllogistic logic → teleology in nature → virtue ethics → |
| era |
Classical Greek philosophy
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Hellenistic philosophy → |
| etymology |
from Greek peripatein meaning to walk about
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| foundedBy |
Aristotle
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| foundedInCentury |
4th century BC
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| foundedInYear |
335 BC
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| headquarters |
Lyceum in Athens
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| influenced |
Christian theology
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Islamic philosophy → Jewish philosophy → Renaissance philosophy → medieval scholasticism → |
| influencedBy |
Plato
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Socratic method → |
| language |
Ancient Greek
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| locatedIn |
Athens
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Lyceum → |
| mainInterest |
biology
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ethics → logic → metaphysics → natural science → political philosophy → psychology → rhetoric → |
| namedAfter |
peripatetic teaching method
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| notableFigure |
Alexander of Aphrodisias
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Andronicus of Rhodes → Aristotle NERFINISHED → Strato of Lampsacus → Theophrastus → |
| philosophicalTradition |
Aristotelianism
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| successorTo |
Plato's Academy
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| teachingMethod |
systematic classification of knowledge
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walking lectures → |
Referenced by (13)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Nicomachean Ethics
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On Interpretation → Politics → |
philosophicalSchool |
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Al-Farabi
("Peripatetic philosophy")
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On the Soul → Rhetoric → |
philosophicalTradition |
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Aristotle
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Averroes ("Peripatetic philosophy") → |
movement |
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Lyceum of Aristotle
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associatedWith |
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Lampsacus
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associatedWithPhilosophicalSchool |
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Posterior Analytics
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belongsToTradition |
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Aristotelianism
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developedFrom |
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Avicenna
("Peripatetic philosophy")
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schoolTradition |