In his great mind were united the characteristics of the two ancient, but nevertheless universal, schools of philosophy, the Aristotelic and the Platonic. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
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 with his own, and the Platonic, and the Aristotelic systems) as one of the four great philosophies to be established and endowed on a footing of equality. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
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 “Aristotelic” principle with which he had been working, — which had expressed itself dominantly at once in his scholastic training and his ascetic discipline — the principle, viz. From Wordnik.com. [Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation] Reference
Not to insist on the introduction of the Aristotelic philosophy into its phraseology, its explanation of dogmas is influenced by ecclesiastical acts or events; its interpretations of prophecy are directly affected by the issues of history; its comments upon Scripture by the conclusions of the astronomer and the geologist; and its casuistical decisions by the various experience, political, social, and psychological, with which times and places are ever supplying it. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin] Reference
Introduction to the Theory of the Four Discourses, an expanded republication of An Aristotelic Philosophy of Culture) - Rio, Topbooks, 1996. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Aristotelic philosophy, the, 52. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin] Reference
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