peripateticism

Noun

per=i=pa=tet=i=cism

WORDNET DICTIONARY

peripateticism(n = noun.cognition) aristotelianism - (philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science; "Aristotelianism profoundly influenced Western thought"

is a kind of philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory

Derived form noun peripatetic₂

peripateticism, n. [Cf. F. péripatétisme.].

The doctrines or philosophical system of the peripatetics. See Peripatetic, n., 2. Lond. Sat. Rev. [1913 Webster]

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