Aristotelian


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Synonyms for Aristotelian

a follower of Aristotle or an adherent of Aristotelianism

of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy

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The role of time in Aristotelian psychology is the focus of the second chapter.
"Aristotle's Empiricism: Experience and Mechanics in the 4th Century B.C." by Jean De Groot (Associate Professor in the School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America) is a truly impressive body of extraordinary scholarship that is erudite, exceptionally well organized, and is a critically important and highly recommended contribution to academic library Aristotelian Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists.
Because his intent is to situate the Aristotelian view within this rubric, Echenique steers clear of debating the relative merits of the two sorts of moral responsibility.
Its subject is rather: 'Was John acquainted with Aristotle's Posterior Analytics?' This is an important question because John's Metalogicon has been taken as the first reference to Aristotle's text in Western Europe and hence as one of the earliest responses to the flood of Aristotelian translations which revolutionised scholarly life during the Twelfth-Century Renaissance.
The book contains several appendices (on the contrast between Aristotelian and non-Aristotelian systems, and the full table of contents to Science and Sanity) and an index.
This example demonstrates how the topics follow a conventionalized format, and although "law" and "instruction" are not Aristotelian terms--the bolded
In the author's opinion Nietzsche has adopted the three Aristotelian factors, i.e., logic, learning and experience, showing the nihilistic element in the educational system of his days.
Fitterer draws on key thinkers in ancient and contemporary virtue ethics to defend the insightful thesis that, although virtue ethics gives a certain kind of priority to the experience of the subject, objectivity plays an important role in understanding what it means in Aristotelian terms to be virtuous.
Written by Kelvin Knight (senior lecturer in politics, London Metropolitan University), Aristotelian Philosophy: Ethics and Politics from Aristotle to MacIntyre is a scholarly intellectual history of Aristotelian philosophy, and its long-running importance up to the present day.
Discontent with subjectivism has been brewing for some years now, driven by a more nuanced understanding of the considerable merits of some objectivist accounts, notably Aristotelian theories, as well as a barrage of criticism aimed at subjectivist views like the desire theory.