Peripatetic doctrine than any Greek I have read: and he would have understood it better, had he not been so devoted to his deity Aristotle.
His time was still too much under the domination of Peripatetic thought for him to be able to take the important step of critically separating these two notions.
But in the first reaction against the now barren Peripatetic philosophy, the school to which Bruno turned, with so many of his fellow-countrymen, was that which nominally derived from Aristotle's immediate predecessor.
The mere substitution of the Academic for the Peripatetic philosophy would indeed have done little good.
Most of the chiefs of the schism treated the Peripatetic philosophy with contempt, and spoke of Aristotle as if Aristotle had been answerable for all the dogmas of Thomas Aquinas.
Hendrickson’s valuable papers on the ‘Peripatetic Mean of Style and the Three Stylistic Characters’ and on the ‘Origin and Meaning of the Ancient Characters of Style’ in the American Journal of Philology vols.
A point worth considering is how far this may seem to make for or against the view that the Dionysian doctrine of styles is Peripatetic in origin, being derived from Theophrastus.
But meantime Patrick had organized a kind of peripatetic school, which accompanied the Saint in his frequent missionary journeys through the various parts of the country.
At the death of the philosopher they were bequeathed to Theophrastus, who continued chief of the Peripatetic school for thirty-five years.
At length they were sold to Apellicon, a resident at Athens, who was attached to the Peripatetic sect.
Of his numerous works, founded on the peripatetic philosophy, that which has gained him the greatest celebrity is entitled "On the Consolations of Philosophy," composed while he was in prison.
But although the Romans could appreciate the majestic dignity and poetical beauty of the style of Plato, they were not equal to the task of penetrating his hidden meaning; neither did the peripatetic doctrines meet with much favor.
Two schools of philosophy were established at Athens at the time of the death of Aristotle: that of the Academy, in which he himself had studied, and that of the Lyceum, which he had founded, as the seat of his peripatetic system.
Support on its right flank, which had been essential to its progress, had been given by the peripatetic Blue Ridge men.
There was another class of peripatetic philosophers--half pedler, half mendicant--who were in the habit of visiting us.
The streets are then blossoming like a peripatetic flower-garden; as if the tulips and lilies and roses of my friend W.
The old conservative geocentric doctrine, seemingly so much more in accordance with the every-day observations of mankind, supported by the majority of astronomers with the Peripatetic philosophers at their head, held its place.
As a peripatetic worker myself during open water in my little hospital ship, and in winter with dogs and sleigh, I recognize that it is but transient help which I can give alone.
Licetus, the successor of Cremonini, maintained, he afterwards informs us, with little support the Peripatetic verity.
The scheme of Glanvil’s book is to display the ignorance of man, and especially to censure the Peripatetic philosophy of the schools.
He was a friend of Sir Kenelm Digby, who was himself, though a man of considerable talents, incapable of disentangling his mind from the Peripatetic hypotheses.
Most is derived from Diogenes Laertius; but an analysis of the Platonic philosophy is given from Alcinous, and the author has compiled one of the Peripatetic system from Aristotle himself.
Fortunio Liceto, his successor, was as staunch a disciple of the Peripatetic sect.
One of the really valuable as well as pleasant companions to the peripatetic philosopher's rambling studies of the town.
I am a philosopher of my own good peripatetic school.
As Barney Gibbs says, all the yellow fever patients Gutieras discovered during his tour of South Texas were up "hunting either a drink or a job" ere this peripatetic expert was well out of town.
Now for Christ's sake don't judge Iowa people by this peripatetic Ananias.
His Neo-Platonism was not unaffected by Peripatetic and later systems of Greek philosophy; yet it was far more Platonic than Stoical or Aristotelian.
Still, Aristotle was the great name, and his system furnished the nucleus of doctrine represented in this Peripatetic eclecticism which was to constitute, par excellence, Arabic philosophy.
Vincente had moved on the same circuits with Hart & Cherry, and was their peripatetic friend.
It was told by an army surgeon with whom he was having his peripatetic breakfast.
The dining-room had been left in chaos by the peripatetic appetites.
Oxford fell in the first instance under Franciscan influence, yet Alexander Hales (of this order) gave the peripatetic bent to Oxford which it retains to this day.
He was an Alexandrian, but of peripateticrather than platonic opinions.
Happily the Arabian scholastic philosophy took its root in Alexandria when neo-platonism had veered towards Aristotle[53], and it was more uniformly peripatetic than the earliest Christian Scholasticism.
Let it not here be thought strange that I should call it an animal, seeing therein I do no otherwise than follow and adhere to the doctrine of the academic and peripatetic philosophers.
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