Peripateticism

in his striving to be strictly faithful to peripateticism, Averroes excludes from his cosmology the entire second angelic hierarchy, that of the celestial Angel-Souls, governing the world of the active Imagination

Corbin identifies strict peripatetic adherence as the direct cause of Averroes’s excision of the Angel-Souls and the active Imagination from cosmology, making Peripateticism the philosophical antagonist of the imaginal world.

Corbin, Henry, Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, 1969thesis

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the third part of philosophy, consisting in reason and

Cicero’s Academica traces the peripatetic inheritance of the Old Academy’s tripartite philosophical architecture, situating logic and natural philosophy within the tradition Antiochus systematized.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods), -45supporting

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Socrates mihi videtur … primus a rebus occultis et ab ipsa natura involutis … avocavisse philosophiam et ad vitam communem adduxisse, ut de virtutibus et vitiis omninoque de bonis rebus et malis quaereret

Cicero’s Varro locates the Socratic turn away from natural philosophy as the founding gesture whose peripatetic elaboration would later define the Old Academy’s ethical and epistemological programme.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods), -45supporting

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Everything about the rules and setting of these disputations, then, bespeak the continuing medieval, pedagogical debt to Aristotle’s Topics, and the rules of the pedagogical dialectical game that ‘the philosopher’ set

The scholastic disputatio is identified as the institutional perpetuation of Aristotelian-peripatetic pedagogical method into the medieval university.

Sharpe, Matthew and Ure, Michael, Philosophy as a Way of Life: History, Dimensions, Directions, 2021aside

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Everything about the rules and setting of these disputations, then, bespeak the continuing medieval, pedagogical debt to Aristotle’s Topics, and the rules of the pedagogical dialectical game that ‘the philosopher’ set

Parallel to Sharpe’s formulation, Ure identifies the peripatetic dialectical inheritance as the governing framework of medieval scholastic pedagogy.

Matthew Sharpe and Michael Ure, Philosophy as a Way of Life: History, Dimensions, Directions, 2021aside

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the later medieval, scholastic prioritization of dialectic as the pedagogical method of methods … Their instruction would proceed by reading the newly available works of ancient historians, poets, rhetoricians and philosophers

The humanist displacement of scholastic Aristotelianism is presented as an overturning of the peripatetic legacy’s institutional dominance in medieval Arts education.

Matthew Sharpe and Michael Ure, Philosophy as a Way of Life: History, Dimensions, Directions, 2021aside

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