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
ancient Greek philosophical school
philosophical school
coreText Metaphysics
Nicomachean Ethics NERFINISHED
On the Soul
Organon
Physics
Politics
country Ancient Greece
doctrine doctrine of the four causes
hylomorphism
syllogistic logic
teleology in nature
virtue ethics
era Classical Greek philosophy
Hellenistic philosophy
etymology from Greek peripatein meaning to walk about
foundedBy Aristotle
foundedInCentury 4th century BC
foundedInYear 335 BC
headquarters Lyceum in Athens
influenced Christian theology
Islamic philosophy
Jewish philosophy
Renaissance philosophy
medieval scholasticism
influencedBy Plato
Socratic method
language Ancient Greek
locatedIn Athens
Lyceum
mainInterest biology
ethics
logic
metaphysics
natural science
political philosophy
psychology
rhetoric
namedAfter peripatetic teaching method
notableFigure Alexander of Aphrodisias
Andronicus of Rhodes
Aristotle NERFINISHED
Strato of Lampsacus
Theophrastus
philosophicalTradition Aristotelianism
successorTo Plato's Academy
teachingMethod systematic classification of knowledge
walking lectures


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