Peripatetic School of Philosophy - Greek philosopher, Aristotle (384–322 BC)

 

Aristotle's Wandering School of Philosophy - Greek philosopher, Aristotle (384–322 BC), one of the greatest and most influential philosophers of all time, as well as being an important figure in the history of science, mathematics and theater, founded his philosophical school in Athens, known as the Peripatetic school, or simply the Peripatos, in 335 BC.

The Greek word peripatetic means to walk or wander.

Unlike his teacher, Plato (428 – 348 BC), who was a citizen of Athens; Aristotle was born in northern Greece, which made him a metic, meaning foreigner, i.e. not an Athenian.

Metics were obliged to pay tax to live in Athens, were not allowed to marry Athenians, nor own property; so Aristotle used the grounds of the Lyceum as a gathering place.

This was the norm in those days, when many philosophers wandered in the public parks of Athens, discussing the meaning of life, how to “Know thyself’ and why “The unexamined life is not worth living”, just as earlier philosophers, such as Socrates, had done before them.

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