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adj. - Of or relating to the ancient Athenian philosopher or his philosophy.

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  • In his great mind were united the characteristics of the two ancient, but nevertheless universal, schools of philosophy, the Aristotelic and the Platonic.
  • It is significant that during the "age of faith" in Europe no philosopher of merit arose, and the only philosophy permitted was the puerile Scholastic-Aristotelic.
  • In the latter half of the second century, when Marcus Aurelius was founding chairs of philosophy at Athens, that emperor, himself a Stoic, recognized the Epicurean (together...
  • It is remarkable how completely Luther apprehended his new creed in this polemical form — how it shaped itself in his mind doctrinally as an opposing tenet to the...
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