Aristotelianism
[ar-uh-stuh-teel-yuh-niz-uh m, -tee-lee-uh-, uh-ris-tuh-]
- the philosophy of Aristotle.
- emphasis upon deduction and upon investigation of concrete and particular things and situations.
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Origin of Aristotelianism
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If Averrhosm differs from Aristotelianism, it does not differ consciously.
Medival Heresy and the InquisitionA. S. Turberville
People would no longer be fed on the dry crust of Aristotelianism or be satisfied with the intellectual jugglery of the Schoolmen.
The Eighteen Christian CenturiesJames White
The whole movement is little else than a chapter in the history of Aristotelianism.
Aristotelianism approved itself as the controversial instrument, and in due course held the field alone.
Scholasticism is the Aristotelianism of medieval orthodoxy as taught in the “schools” or universities of Western Europe.