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  • noun Plural form of Peripatetic.

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Examples

  • Aristotle and his school of old, called Peripatetics, recommended the moderation of the passions, not their extirpation.

    Moral Philosophy Joseph Rickaby 1888

  • They were called the "Peripatetics," meaning walkers in Greek, for their habit of meandering around the classroom while their teacher spouted his lectures.

    Moving Parts Alan Lightman 2006

  • It is thus not clear whether we are dealing with one person or two people named Hippo and it is doubtful that the Hippo discussed by the Peripatetics was a Pythagorean (Zhmud regards Hippo as well as Menestor and Theodorus as Pythagoreans ” 1997,

    Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

  • Fortunately, sooner or later, entropy lays waste to the Peripatetics and the world is free from their oppressive fretting. btw, thanks for the Thomas Paine.

    Think Progress » Scott Brown Yawns At Plane Attack On IRS Building: ‘No One Likes Paying Taxes’ 2010

  • For example, in the essay I suggest that filtered connections would help me implement a concept I am working on called Peripatetics.

    Facebook Generation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The full presence of mysticism is more evident in the works of the master of the Peripatetics, Avicenna.

    Mysticism in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy Aminrazavi, Mehdi 2009

  • His discussions show not only Alexander's thorough familiarity with Aristotle's ethics, but also reflect the debates of the Peripatetics with the Epicureans and Stoics in Hellenistic times, as shown especially by Alexander's terminology.

    Alexander of Aphrodisias Frede, Dorothea 2009

  • Simplicius goes on to say that Ammonius devoted an entire book to arguing that, contrary to these Peripatetics, God was both final and efficient cause of both the movement and existence of the whole world, sublunar and supralunar.

    The Garbage House 2009

  • Among philosophers and theologians, Scotists quarrel with Thomists, nominalists with realists, Platonists with Peripatetics.

    Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

  • According to the Peripatetics, the happy life is one in which one exercises one's moral and theoretical virtues.

    Stoicism Baltzly, Dirk 2008

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