Stagyrite

Aristotle was born in Stagira in northern Greece, and that's why he's sometimes referred to as the Stagyrite also, Stagirite.

March 2005 2005

Aristotle was born in Stagira in northern Greece, and that's why he's sometimes referred to as the Stagyrite also, Stagirite.

A man with a bunch of names 2005

At last, however, when some of us learned Latin, and had a bad translation of Aristotle, we figured in the world with honor, passing three or four hundred years in deciphering some pages of the Stagyrite, and in adoring and condemning them.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Stagyrite, of whom two councils had burned the books.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

In most respects, he follows Aristotle so closely that the Stagyrite has, among Catholics, almost the authority of one of the Fathers; to criticize him in matters of pure philosophy has come to be thought almost impious.

Geisler, Aquinas, Dogen, and I Mumon 2005

Even the allwisest Stagyrite was bitted, bridled and mounted by a light of love.

Ulysses 2003

Stagyrite of the Dark Ages, who ruled the world till the end of the thirteenth century, became the “twice execrable” of

The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi 2003

Nowhere does the old Stagyrite display a more consummate knowledge of what men are made of, than in his contrasted characters of youth and age.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

Quintilian, and Boileau, corresponds with these observations: "Comedy," says the Stagyrite, "is an imitation of the worst of men; when I say worst, I don't mean in all sorts of vices, but only in the ridiculous, which are properly deformities without pain, and which never contribute to the destruction of the subject in which they exist."

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810

Stagyrite had a decisive influence on the introduction of economic notions into the controversies of the Schools.

An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien