Crossword clues for aristotelian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aristotelian \Ar`is*to*te"li*an\ (?; 277),
Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher (384-322
). -- n. A follower of Aristotle; a Peripatetic. See Peripatetic.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also Aristotelean, c.1600, of or pertaining to the person or teachings of Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.).
Wikipedia
Aristotelian may refer to:
- Aristotle (384–322 BCE), Greek philosopher
- Aristotelianism, the philosophical tradition begun by Aristotle
- Aristotelian logic, term logic
- Aristotelian physics, the natural sciences
- Aristotelian Society, founded at a meeting on 19 April 1880
Usage examples of "aristotelian".
It was a back-wash of the old Augustinian Puritanism against the Aristotelian liberality.
New Testament, and second that it points forward, if it points to anything, to the Aristotelian realism of the Summa of St.
Thomas was becoming more of a Christian, and not merely more of an Aristotelian, when he insisted that God and the image of God had come in contact through matter with a material world.
So the Thomist was free to be an Aristotelian, instead of being bound to be an Augustinian.
This is not a paradox but a plain truism, which can only be missed by those who may know what is meant by an Aristotelian, but have simply forgotten what is meant by a Christian.
When we praise the practical value of the Aristotelian Revolution, and the originality of Aquinas in leading it, we do not mean that the Scholastic philosophers before him had not been philosophers, or had not been highly philosophical, or had not been in touch with ancient philosophy.
Anyhow, it is certain that even in Aristotelian philosophy, let alone Platonic philosophy, there was already a tradition of highly intelligent interpretation.
What made the Aristotelian Revolution really revolutionary was the fact that it was really religious.
The panic upon the Aristotelian peril, that had passed across the high places of the Church, was probably a dry wind from the desert.
Between those rather incongruous passions, the love of Plato and the fear of Mahomet, there was a moment when the prospects of any Aristotelian culture in Christendom looked very dark indeed.
All around him there were other Aristotelian revolutionaries of a much more dubious sort.
When he seemed to stand up as a stubborn Aristotelian, hardly distinguishable from the Arabian heretics, I do seriously believe that what protected him was very largely the prodigious power of his simplicity and his obvious goodness and love of truth.
He knew perfectly well that armies of atheists and anarchists were roaring applause in the background at his Aristotelian victory over all he held most dear.
Nevertheless, it was never the existence of atheists, any more than Arabs or Aristotelian pagans, that disturbed the extraordinary controversial composure of Thomas Aquinas.
In fact, out of the entire incredible range of Aristotelian writings, only one set of manuscripts had been recovered, and even that had not been translated into Latin.