(a.) Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher (384-322 b. c.).
(n.) A follower of Aristotle; a Peripatetic. See Peripatetic.
Example Sentences:
(1) In its place it offers an Aristotelian conception of ethics in which sensitivity and feeling are important components of practical reason.
(2) A psychological science of efficient causes, using internal mechanisms to explain overt behavior, is distinguished from another psychological science, based on Aristotelian final causes, using external objects and goals to explain overt behavior.
(3) But Hare, in both The Absence of War and Racing Demon, goes back to basic Aristotelian tragic principles by showing us a good man destroyed by a mixture of personal and societal failings.
(4) In her essay, Mill criticizes Iglesias's Aristotelian analysis as being too static and abstract to use in an ontological assessment of human structure and development from fertilization to birth.
(5) Instead of the traditional Aristotelian craving for generality issuing in the notion of an essence, we suggest the use of the more modern Wittgensteinian concept of a family resemblance: There may be no common core but a set of family resemblances among the different kinds of caring activities.
(6) After the treatment of the teratological theories in greek medicine and aristotelian natural philosophy the question of the origin of human malformation is examined in Pliny's "Historia naturalis" and Augustine's "De civitate dei".
(7) Philosophically, Aristotelian rationalism was challenged by Bacon's scientific empiricism, and C. Bernard's scientific determinism by today's indeterminism.
(8) Patients with orofacial pain dysfunction syndrome cannot be treated in a satisfactory manner by looking at them with a monocausal, linear analytical point of view in the sense of aristotelian logic.
(9) It goes without saying, that this article contains a good deal of philosophical arguments including, of course, an introduction to some basic Aristotelian notions, fundamental distinctions in the theory of definition, and finally the Wittgensteinian concept of family resemblance.
(10) In his three main works, the Commentary on the Mishnah, the Mishneh Torah, and the Guide of the Perplexed, he developed a far-reaching ethical system which is Aristotelian and yet is also greatly dependent upon the Rabbinic tradition.
(11) The retroactive analysis of the documents from every case that was treated at the Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic of the Aristotelian University from 1970 to 1975, as well as the comparative statistical study, show common characteristics shared by all 90 cases under consideration.
(12) In an article in an earlier edition of the Journal of Medical Ethics (1) Dr Iglesias bases her analysis upon the mediaeval interpretation of Platonic metaphysics and Aristotelian logic as given by Aquinas.
(13) The nosological concept of the DCR can be characterized by thirteen paradigms: (1) a nonkraepelinian clinical classificatory system given by Leonhard; (2) the index-psychosis paradigm as opposed to the end-state paradigm; (3) conceptual differentiation of the disease entities as opposed both to the full disease entity paradigm and to the only-one-psychosis (or no disease entity) paradigm, respectively; (4) an aristotelian distinction between content (meaning) and form as opposed to the paradigm of ideas; (5) three-aspect approach to the psychopathological phenomena instead of choosing only one or two of the aspects of experience, of the behavior and of the achievement as special paradigm; (6) gestalt paradigm specified in different ways, as completing the associationist paradigm; (7) structural paradigm, especially concerning the delusions; (8) method of understanding in contrast to the method of causal explanation in distinguishing reactive (i.e.
(14) He suggests that Pellegrino stands in three consequentialist or teleological moral traditions: professional physician ethics, Aristotelianism, and Catholic moral theology, but that there are the makings of a more independent, more egalitarian theory of justice in his writings.
(15) This is displayed on a grander scale: White manages to compress several centuries of British history into his work, and Wart sees it all, remaining sympathetic, valorous and humanly flawed till his final, tragic (in the Aristotelian sense, as White himself would have it) end.
(16) It is here argued that such schemes are based on the Aristotelian concept of "essences" and raise the same difficulties as have arisen with the essentialist approach to animal taxonomy.
(17) In the experience of authentic tragedy there is some element of voluntary surrender, of suspension of disbelief with full consent of will, as in the Aristotelian concept of catharsis.
(18) Appropriately enough, visitors to northern Greece can now do their own, more strenuous, Aristotelian walk, on a magnificent trail near the town of Stagira, where the philosopher was born in 384BC ("the Stagirite" was his nickname in the Renaissance and later).
(19) The quality of life (QoL) of 10 home hemodialysis (HHD) patients was studied using the Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophical theory of the good life.
(20) To apply Aristotelian logical concepts to it is to distort the real nature of the datum.
Peripatetic
Definition:
(a.) Walking about; itinerant.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers.
(n.) One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.
(n.) A disciple of Aristotle; an Aristotelian.
Example Sentences:
(1) We recommend the development of a peripatetic service as outlined in this study, offering health care at hostels, day centres and other places where the homeless are to be found.
(2) One story has it that his own brand of philosophy became known as the peripatetic (wandering) school because he walked around as he lectured.
(3) Her peripatetic childhood was down to her high-achieving father, John W Hunt, now emeritus professor of organisational behaviour at the London Business School.
(4) When Stefan Zweig , forced into a peripatetic life by the rise of Nazism, arrived in New York in 1935, he was persistently asked to make a statement about the treatment of the Jews in Germany.
(5) He once wrote of Victor Pasmore's late abstract diversity: "The works are eccentric, peripatetic.
(6) His tenure here is his 15th at a 14th club, twice leading Vitória Sétubal in a peripatetic career that has taken in the bright lights of Sporting and Besiktas.
(7) A less dramatic but no less important valedictory observation was made in an interview earlier in the week , when Sir Michael was asked about the pace of constant upheaval in school structures and the curriculum at the education department during his time at Ofsted: “I have learned this not just as chief inspector but also as a headteacher: that change sometimes has to be slow and incremental.” In a peripatetic political culture, that can be a hard lesson for politicians to heed.
(8) The result will be an ever more peripatetic, mobile and insecure young adult population – compelled to move home more regularly, at the whims of an increasingly muscular landlord class, to areas that are cheaper and less well connected.
(9) Unfortunately that was not the only trio in her life: she also had to hold down three jobs to make ends meet, leaving full-time employment in school to do home visits four evenings a week for two peripatetic teaching contracts, as well as weekend babysitting “My children don’t understand,” she said.
(10) There has long been a fear of including the self-taught in the world of high art, says James Brett, founder of the Museum of Everything , a peripatetic collection of unclassifiable and undiscovered art that has taken up residence at London’s Tate Modern as well as Selfridges department store.
(11) This paper deals with the early results and problems of establishing and developing a regional training programme in psychotherapy, using peripatetic senior lecturers.
(12) Born in July 1971, he led a peripatetic life (his mother, who campaigned on a number of causes, was in a touring theatre group) and, in the 1980s, went by the "handle" – a hacker's online monicker – of Mendax.
(13) All the other women in my family are magnificent matriarchs with beautiful, well-organised homes, while the role I've played until now has been peripatetic and undomesticated.
(14) Kathak (meaning storyteller) grew from ancient, peripatetic bards interpreting the mythological tales of the Indian epics.
(15) A little further afield, Akadimias Platonos park is where Plato had his peripatetic philosophy school.
(16) Success often depended on special provisions-for example, transport, aids to mobility, peripatetic physiotherapists.
(17) I would favour a peripatetic parliament, rather like a medieval court, visiting all parts of the kingdom.
(18) Sebald allows this to lie beneath the text – a discoverable and psychic subtext; and just as he neglects to inform us of why Rousseau's paranoid and haunted final years should have had such a resonance for him, so this compulsively peripatetic and ambulatory writer also leaves off the list of distinguished writerly pilgrims to Rousseau's happy isle the greatest British walker-writer of them all, Worsdworth, who tramped all the way there in 1788, en route to his own liaison with revolutionary apotheosis.
(19) A peripatetic educational development team based at the medical school completes the link by helping community hospital physicians identify educational needs and develop educational responses, using both local and medical school experts as faculty.
(20) I touched base with him again yesterday to ask whether he felt his peripatetic presence undermined his protest.