School
Peripatetic school
Overview
school of philosophy in Ancient Greece
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Summary. The Greeks were induced to philosophize by the increasing failure of their traditional customs and beliefs to regulate life. Thus they were led to criticize custom adversely and to look for some other source of authority in life and belief.
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
Close in meaning to Peripatetic school; the term itself is not named.
14), 14 _n._, 181. Argos, Argive, 85, 186. Aridaeus, 206. Aristarchus of Samos, astronomer and physicist (310-230), 98, 264, 269, 283. Aristarchus, critic, of Samothrace and Alexandria (fl. 156), 295. Aristocrătes, king of Arcadia (stoned to death 668), 176. Aristodēmus, king of Messenia (d. 723), 229, 230. Ariston, 186, 195. Aristonīca, 104. Aristotle, 384-322, founder of the Peripatetic School at Athens, 69, 84…
Plutarch, Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II.
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Xenophanes, Parmenides, Melissus and Zeno are to be reckoned as belonging to this school. Xenophanes may be regarded as the founder of it; Parmenides is supposed to have been his pupil, and Melissus, and especially Zeno, are called the pupils of Parmenides. In fact, they are to be taken together as forming the Eleatic school; later on it lost the name, being then called Sophistic, and its locality was transferred to…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
States what Peripatetic school is.
Philosophers who discussed Peripatetic school
- Epicurus
- Carneades
- Avicenna
- Galen
- Mulla Sadra
- Alexander of Aphrodisias
- Lucian
- Jean Buridan
- Al-Farabi
- Andronicus of Rhodes
- Aenesidemus
- Pierre Gassendi
- Clitomachus (philosopher)
- Antiochus of Ascalon
- Plutarch
- Philodemus
- Al-Kindi
- Thales of Miletus
- Aristotle
- Eudemus of Rhodes
- Peter Abelard
- Aristocles of Messene
- Melissus of Samos
- Strabo
Related ideas
- Avicenna
- Athens
- Classical Athens
- The Book of Healing
- Atheism
- Alexander of Aphrodisias
- Islamic philosophy
- Works of Aristotle
- Athenaeus
- Al-Farabi
- Andronicus of Rhodes
- Latin
- Scholarch
- Stoicism
- Thomas Aquinas
- Commentaries on Aristotle
- Plato
- Stanford University centers and institutes
- Neoplatonism
- Sulla
- Platonic Academy
- Rome
- Roman Empire
- Lyceum (classical)
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Andronicus of Rhodes
- Dicaearchus
- Eudemus of Rhodes
- Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
- The Book of Healing
- Demetrius of Phalerum
- Hermippus of Smyrna
- Lyco of Troas
- Neleus of Scepsis
- Aristo of Ceos
- Clearchus of Soli
- Diodorus of Tyre
- Boethus of Sidon (Peripatetic)
- Erymneus
- Siege of Athens and Piraeus (87–86 BC)
- Peripatos (Acropolis of Athens)
- Phaenias of Eresus