Aristotelianism
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Aristotelianism is the philosophical tradition based on the works and methods of Aristotle, emphasizing empirical observation, formal logic, and systematic inquiry into nature, ethics, and metaphysics.
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Target entity: Aristotelianism Context triple: [Classical Greek philosophy, hasSchool, Aristotelianism]
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Aristotelian physics
Aristotelian physics is the pre-modern natural philosophy based on Aristotle’s ideas about motion and the elements, which dominated Western thought until it was displaced by the new mechanics of the Scientific Revolution.
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Platonism
Platonism is a philosophical doctrine rooted in Plato’s ideas, emphasizing the existence of abstract, non-material Forms or universals as the most real and fundamental aspects of reality.
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Neoplatonism
Neoplatonism is a philosophical system developed in the Roman Empire that reinterprets and extends Plato’s ideas into a metaphysical framework centered on a single transcendent source from which all reality emanates.
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Stoicism
Stoicism is an ancient Greek and Roman philosophical school that teaches cultivating virtue, rationality, and inner resilience to achieve tranquility amid life's hardships.
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Classical Greek philosophy
Classical Greek philosophy is the foundational period of Western thought, centered on figures like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, that established core ideas in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and political theory.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Aristotelianism Target entity description: Aristotelianism is the philosophical tradition based on the works and methods of Aristotle, emphasizing empirical observation, formal logic, and systematic inquiry into nature, ethics, and metaphysics.
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A.
Aristotelian physics
Aristotelian physics is the pre-modern natural philosophy based on Aristotle’s ideas about motion and the elements, which dominated Western thought until it was displaced by the new mechanics of the Scientific Revolution.
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B.
Platonism
Platonism is a philosophical doctrine rooted in Plato’s ideas, emphasizing the existence of abstract, non-material Forms or universals as the most real and fundamental aspects of reality.
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C.
Neoplatonism
Neoplatonism is a philosophical system developed in the Roman Empire that reinterprets and extends Plato’s ideas into a metaphysical framework centered on a single transcendent source from which all reality emanates.
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D.
Stoicism
Stoicism is an ancient Greek and Roman philosophical school that teaches cultivating virtue, rationality, and inner resilience to achieve tranquility amid life's hardships.
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E.
Classical Greek philosophy
Classical Greek philosophy is the foundational period of Western thought, centered on figures like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, that established core ideas in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and political theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
philosophical tradition
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school of philosophy ⓘ |
| basedOn | works of Aristotle ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
eudaimonia
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form ⓘ golden mean ⓘ matter ⓘ substance ⓘ teleology ⓘ virtue ⓘ |
| concerns |
causality
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ethically good life ⓘ nature of being ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Peripatetic school ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
empirical observation
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formal logic ⓘ systematic inquiry ⓘ |
| field |
epistemology
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ethics ⓘ logic ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ natural philosophy ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Hellenistic philosophy ⓘ |
| influenced |
Islamic philosophy
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Jewish philosophy ⓘ Scholastic theology ⓘ
surface form:
Scholasticism
Neo-scholasticism ⓘ
surface form:
Thomism
early modern science ⓘ medieval Christian theology ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Platonism
ⓘ
Presocratic philosophers ⓘ
surface form:
Pre-Socratic philosophy
|
| majorFigure |
Alexander of Aphrodisias
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Averroes ⓘ Avicenna ⓘ John Philoponus ⓘ St. Thomas Aquinas ⓘ
surface form:
Thomas Aquinas
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| methodologicalFeature |
deductive reasoning from first principles
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systematic classification of knowledge ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Aristotle ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Platonism
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Stoicism ⓘ modern empiricism in some respects ⓘ |
| originatedIn |
Greek Antiquity
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surface form:
Ancient Greece
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| revivedIn |
13th century
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Middle Ages ⓘ |
| uses |
act–potency distinction
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four causes doctrine ⓘ hylomorphism ⓘ substance–accident distinction ⓘ syllogistic logic ⓘ |
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