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Noun: peripateticism
  1. (philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science
    "peripateticism profoundly influenced Western thought"
    - Aristotelianism

Derived forms: peripateticisms

See also: Peripatetic

Type of: philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory

Encyclopedia: Peripateticism