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Peripateticism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The doctrines or philosophical system of the peripatetics uncountable, usually

    "[…] it should be remembered that their poets and rabbis of the middle ages were contemporary with the Scotists and Thomists, with the pseudo-platonism and peripateticism of Christendom."

  2. 2
    (philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science wordnet

Etymology

From peripatetic + -ism. Compare French péripatétisme.

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