George Grote, Alexander Grant, Elbert Hubbard, William De Witt Hyde, Diogenes Laërtius, George Malcolm Stratton
ASIN: B01CH3BBOG
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 122
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”- Aristotle.Just as the Stoics were named for the stoa or porch in Athens where they congregated, the Peripatetic school - known in its day simply as the Peripatos - took its moniker from the peripatoi or covered walkways of the Lyceum where its members met. (A similar Greek word peripatetikos refers to the act of walking, and after Aristotle's death, a legend arose that he was a ‘peripatetic’ lecturer – that he walked about as he taught). The Peripatetic school of philosophy dates from around 335 BCE when Aristotle began teaching. It was an informal institution whose members conducted philosophical and scientific inquiries. Whereas Plato had sought to explain things with his theory of Forms, Aristotle preferred to start from the facts given by experience. Philosophy to him meant science, and its aim was the recognition of the why in all things. ...