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  Peripatetic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Peripatetics were members of a school of philosophy in ancient Greece.
Aristotle founded the Peripatetic school in 335 BC when he first opened his philosophical school at the Lyceum.
The most prominent member of the school after him was Strato of Lampsacus, who increased the naturalistic elements of Aristotle's philosophy and embraced a form of atheism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peripatetic   (251 words)

  
 Peripatetics - LoveToKnow 1911
In his doctrine of virtue the distinctive Peripatetic position regarding the importance of external goods was defended by him with emphasis against the assaults of the Stoics.
Early in the ist century B.C. all the philosophic schools began to be invaded by a spirit of eclecticism.
The most interesting Peripatetic work of the period is the treatise De mundo, which is a good example within the Peripatetic school of the eclectic tendency which was then in the air.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Peripatetics   (1354 words)

  
 Theophrastus - LoveToKnow 1911
Theophrastus presided over the Peripatetic school for thirty-five years, and died in 287 B.C. Under his guidance the school flourished greatly - there were at one period more than 2000 students - and at his death he bequeathed to it his garden with house and colonnades as a permanent seat of instruction.
His popularity was shown in the regard paid to him by Philip, Cassander and Ptolemy, and by the complete failure of a charge of impiety brought against him.
Sandys, 1909); recent editions are that of J. Edmonds and G. Austen (1904), containing text, notes and illustrations (intended for schools), and that of C. Bennett and W. Hammond (1902), a translation, with an introduction.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Theophrastus   (707 words)

  
 Theophrastus
Theophrastus, the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic[?] school, a native of Eresus[?] in Lesbos, was born c.
Theophrastus presided over the Peripatetic school for thirty-five years, and died in 287 BC.
Under his guidance the school flourished greatly—there were at one period more than 2000 students--and at his death he bequeathed to it his garden with house and colonnades as a permanent seat of instruction.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/Theophrastus.html   (568 words)

  
 Peripatetic
Aristotle founded the Peripatetic school in 335 BC when he first opened his philosophical school at the Lyceum in Athens.
The name of the school derives from the Greek word for walking: either from covered walkways at the Lyceum known as peripatoi, or Aristotle's penchant for walking while he lectured.
The most prominent member of the Peripatetic school after Aristotle was Strato of Lampsacus, who increased the naturalistic elements of Aristotle's philosophy and embraced a form of atheism.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Aristotle/Peripatetic.html   (140 words)

  
 Open Directory - Society:Philosophy:History of Philosophy:Ancient   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Description: The Cyrenaic school of classical Greek thought (aka Cyrenaicism) was founded by Aristippus of Cyrene and flourished during the fourth century BC.
The Cyrenaic school of classical Greek thought (aka Cyrenaicism) was founded by Aristippus of Cyrene and flourished during the fourth century BC.
Peripatetic doctrines were popular in late antiquity, and became very strong in medieval thought.
dmoz.org /Society/Philosophy/History_of_Philosophy/Ancient/desc.html   (1076 words)

  
 MullaSadra's Site ... (SIPRIn)
This new school was greatly superior to that of Aristotle (introduced through his translated works) due to its depth of approach, its monotheistic perspective, and the plurality of the issues and problems discussed therein.
The other school was Islamic theology, which was started by the descendants and people of the Prophet (p.b.u.h) and his successor, Imam Ali (AS), and consisted of a collection of the interpretations these two holy leaders had presented in response to people’s inquiries.
All the problems of Peripatetic philosophy, before the translation of its related books by Muslims, amounted to 200; however, this was increased to 700 by Islamic philosophers, and, later, they propounded a number of complicated problems which had never been discussed in Greece previously.
www.mullasadra.org /New_site/English/Mullasadra/Background.htm   (1534 words)

  
 Department of Technology in Education - Primary Sector - School Administration Support
Peripatetic teachers must be informed of any upcoming ICT-related projects planned by the school, as early as possible wherever their contribution to these projects is essential.
Peripatetic teachers are deployed by the Department according to a quota of classes, not schools.
Peripatetic teachers’ demonstration lessons will gradually be focused only on newly qualified teachers or teachers who are new to the particular year group they are currently in charge of.
schoolnet.gov.mt /ictadmin/ictpts.html   (701 words)

  
 ICT in the Primary Classroom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Lately each school is being connected to the Internet and up till last June, all A and B schools had been supplied with the service.
The role of the ICT peripatetic teacher is to go to the schools s/he is assigned to and give demonstration lessons to the pupils for the teachers to get more ideas of how they can integrate the use of ICT during their lessons.
Through video-conferencing, the head of school also managed to contact the head of school of Dublin and the children had the opprotunity of seeing and talking to the children in that school.
schoolnet.gov.mt /jeannette.cardona/ictprimary.htm   (2343 words)

  
 MullaSadra's Site ... (SIPRIn)
It is a widely accepted fact that the independence of a school does not indicate that it has put up with all the ideas and theories of previous schools, since each and every new philosophical system certainly requires some input from preceding ones to be able to utilize them as its components and building blocks.
Mulla Sadra’s creative soul and scientific power and perfection allowed him to create a school which was independent of all philosophical, gnostic, and theological schools and, at the same time, enjoyed all their strength and positive aspects.
Generally speaking, unlike the case with Peripatetic philosophy, Mulla Sadra’s sources of philosophy were not merely confined to the intellect, so that he would ignore other sources such as revelation and inspiration.
www.mullasadra.org /New_site/English/Mullasadra/sources.htm   (1320 words)

  
 Epicurus.info : E-Texts : Epicureanism, by William Wallace
These schools were the school of Plato, known as the Academic; the school of Aristotle, known as the Peripatetic; the school of Zeno, known as the Stoic; and the school of Epicurus, known as the Epicurean.
The point on which both schools originally laid most stress, next to their fundamental principle, was an analysis of the order and concatenation of existence as a reasonable and intelligent system.
If the old schools had made thought and ideas all in all, the sole true existence, the new school must admit the existence of nothing which was not corporeal.
www.epicurus.info /etexts/wallace_epicureanism.html   (15393 words)

  
 History of Philosophy 12
Besides our primary sources, consisting of treatises and commentaries of the philosophers of Aristotle's school, we have, as secondary sources, the works of Diogenes Laertius and the references made by Cicero, who, it should be said, is more trustworthy when he mentions the Peripatetics than when he speaks of the pre-Socratic philosophers.
Aritoxenus of Tarentum, known as the Musician, introduced into the Peripatetic philosophy many of the ideas of the Pythagoreans, attaching especial importance to the notion of harmony.
All these, though they belonged to Neo-Platonic or Eclectic schools, enriched the literature of the Peripatetic school by their commentaries on Aristotle.
www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/hop12.htm   (695 words)

  
 Homeokinetics Bulletin 5
The moral that this observer drew was that this homeokinetic free university was stuck with the same problem as that theatrical school, that its peripatetic aim was appropriate, and that no one could say what its chances for success were.
In this homeokinetic school, its ff's are ready to debate and present a view that differs both with the accepted but relatedly unresolved outlook to dissipative thermodynamics, and how the time reversibility issue can be resolved.
The upshot from the two events, to this observer, is to say that schools are needed, schools of different study content are needed; there are those major problems out there that require methods and tools of study.
www.trincoll.edu /depts/ecopsyc/homeokinetics/bulls/bull5.html   (1296 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The School of Armagh
The School of Armagh seems to have been the oldest, and down to the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion continued to be one of the most celebrated, of the ancient schools of Ireland.
There is some reason to think that his family belonged to the bardic order, and we know that he had been trained by Patrick in sacred learning from his early youth and was, moreover, well versed in the language and learning of his native land.
No doubt the School of Armagh would be primarily a great theological seminary, not only for Patrick's royal city or see, but also for students from all parts of Ireland; for the chief seat of ecclesiastical authority should also be the fountain of sound doctrine for all the land.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/01734a.htm   (1183 words)

  
 Term-Papers.us - Aristotle
This new school was highly successful and came to outshine the Academy, despite the fact that the philosophy taught there was based on Plato's work.
Differences in the fundamental attitudes of the schools were that while early philosophers such as Plato had directed their thinking to figuring out how you could improve human society, the Peripatetic school was focused more on observation rather than speculation and research rather than intuition.
While Aristotle was enrolled in Plato's school, the school had evolved into a place of intensive study of all knowledge rather than a place where one would only recite the works of Homer.
www.term-papers.us /ts/fb/prz49.shtml   (3888 words)

  
 Aristotle
Plato was soon calling him the "mind of the school." Aristotle stayed at the Academy for 20 years, leaving only when his beloved master died in 347 BC.
Aristotle became a teacher in a school on the coast of Asia Minor.
Because he walked about while teaching, Athenians called his school the Peripatetic (which means "to walk about") school.
www.thocp.net /biographies/aristoteles.html   (519 words)

  
 Product: Peripatetic Music Lessons
Both are available for all juniors, although it is important to be aware that Year 3 children may find learning a brass instrument difficult at first if they do not have their second teeth.
The cost of peripatetic lessons varies depending on the number of children we have and the number of hours we buy in from the Music Service.
However, it is also quite usual for children to learn both recorder and peripatetic lessons at the same time.
www.barrowford.lancs.sch.uk /Visitor/Section/product.asp?idproduct=62   (544 words)

  
 Find peripatetic using our Local directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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A peripatetic music teacher generally gives music lessons either in a school or home setting to children or adults, teaching the pupil to play a musical instrument or to sing.
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 Peripatetics
Later Peripatetics were largely occupied in preparing paraphrases, commentaries, and interpretations of the teachings of Aristotle.
The devotees of the school defended its essential doctrines against the Stoics and others, but some adopted variations, particularly concerning the explanation of nature.
On top of the (biotech) world: peripatetic Dave Bunnell has positioned BioWorld on the edge of the latest boom field.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0838445.html   (310 words)

  
 Philosophers and Philosophies
He was the founder of the Cynics school of philosophy.
He established the Peripatetic school of philosophy (the Lyceum).
It adopted the beliefs of the Eleatic school of philosophy.
www.innvista.com /culture/arts/greek/philos.htm   (511 words)

  
 Hedge School The Ultimate Celtic Rock Album   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Hedge School - Irish peripatetic learning academy, established in penal times in a clandestine manner to impart wisdom to the ragged and disenfranchised.
Hedge School " Celtic Rockers with a touch of jazz" (but don't expect anything as polished as Dieseal) are certainly in the shadow-lands of such luminaries as De Dannan.
Hedge School in a past life were a Thin Lizzy tribute band, here they represent the "new" in the latest 13 CD package from KTel.
mag.irish-music.net /Specials/CDsJul97/HdgeSchl.htm   (386 words)

  
 NR: Non-Fiction
One of my first “new thoughts” engendered by the peripatetic school, was to recognize a whole living world in what I had once considered nothing but a gap—the distance between two points.
She was taking part in a gifted program for high school students on campus, and we were climbing out of the dank stairwell between buildings, into the bright sky.
From pre-school to graduate school to continuing ed and elder-hostel, our academic methods seemed to share the same indoor, inbred, motionless, and airless characteristics I had not thought about much while zooming around between buildings to participate in them.
www.nantahalareview.org /issue3-1/non-fiction/Field.htm   (3834 words)

  
 Aristotle Commentators
The early commentaries culminate in the work of the greatest Peripatetic elaborator of Aristotle, Alexander of Aphrodisias (second to third century; see Peripatetics).
This school became the driving force behind the translation into Arabic of Aristotle and his commentators in the ninth century, which was to inspire new philosophizing in the Islamic world.
The Alexandrian School may have survived until the Arab capture of the city in 642, and a tradition continued in Constantinople.
www.muslimphilosophy.com /ip/rep/A021.htm   (1175 words)

  
 Detail Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The Lyceum operated as a rival to the Academy, which was the Athenian philosophical school founded by Plato.
The Peripatetics suffered a decline in influence in the later 200s
But by then the Peripatetics were being permanently overshadowed by other Greek philosophical movements, primarily Stoicism and Epicureanism, which were flurishing among the Romans.
www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0302   (230 words)

  
 Eudemus of Rhodes
Eudemus was born on the isle of Rhodos, but spent a large part of his life in Athens, where he studied philosophy at Aristotle's Peripatetic School.
It is for this reason that, in spite of the fact that Eudemus's writings themselves are not extant, we know many citations and testimonia regarding his work, and are thus able to build up a picture of him and his work.
Aristotle, shortly before his death in 322, designated Theophrastus to be his successor as head of the Peripatetic School.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/EudemusOfRhodes.html   (913 words)

  
 June 10, 2005: By royal appointment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Linda Brook, School Finance Team Leader, attended Buckingham Palace on Wednesday to receive her award from His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales.
She currently leads City of York Council's school finance team, which comprises school finance officers and peripatetic bursars who provide financial support to schools.
The team is currently developing an innovative peripatetic school business manager service by running a pilot programme in three schools during this academic year.
www.york.gov.uk /cgi-bin/wn_document.pl?type=5816   (473 words)

  
 Culinary adventures to suit any taste (phillyBurbs.com) | Food & Entertaining
Some inns and cooking schools in the United States also offer vacation packages, or you can create your own by signing up for cooking classes in the city of your choice and booking a room at a nearby bed and breakfast.
Spaces fill quickly, and the school’s trip this October to the Perigord region of France is already sold out.
This Dallas-based company arranges cooking vacations at a variety of schools in France, Italy, England, Portugal, Brazil and the U.S. The latest addition is a weeklong class on a small Greek island taught by cookbook author Diane Kochilas.
www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/105-05152003-90243.html   (1681 words)

  
 History of Medieval Philosophy 060   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
THE PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOLS OF THE THIRD AND SECOND CENTURIES B.C. The Peripatetic School.
-- This school, sprung from the teaching of Aristotle, gave its attention for two centuries to logic, ethics, and physics.
The development which this school underwent from the first century B.C. is of greater historical importance (174).
www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/homp060.htm   (82 words)

  
 Wymondham High School - Music Department
Rehearses after school on Mondays and caters mainly for lower school woodwind and brass players.
Meets on Wednesday after school and is for advanced brass players.
Meets at the school on Thursdays, led by local musician Margery Baker and her team.
www.wymondhamhigh.norfolk.sch.uk /Music/deptmusic.htm   (127 words)

  
 Mystical philosophy in Islam
We shall therefore leave aside the Peripatetic school, despite the mystical elements in certain works of al-Farabi, the 'oriental philosophy' of Ibn Sina (Nasr 1996b) and the doctrine of the intellect adopted by the Muslim Peripatetics (mashsha'un) in general.
Two of the notable philosophical elements associated with Shi'ism in general and Isma'ilism in particular during the early centuries of Islamic history are Hermetism and Pythagoreanism, the presence of which is already evident in that vast corpus of writings associated with Jabir ibn Hayyan, who was at once alchemist and philosopher.
He founded a school of philosophy which some have called theosophy in its original sense, that is, mystical philosophy through and through but without being against logic or the use of reason.
www.muslimphilosophy.com /ip/rep/H004.htm   (2526 words)

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