Peripatetic school
Aristotle's school: knowledge starts from experience and is ordered by logic
Key ideas
- Form exists in things themselves, not in a separate world
- Syllogistic, the first system of logic
- Four causes: matter, form, moving cause and purpose
- Observing and classifying living nature
Key thinkers
- Aristotle (founder) — ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, 384 BC–322 BC
Grew out of
- Platonic Academy c. 387 BC – 86 BC · Europe
What grew out of it
- Falsafa c. 830 – 1200 · Middle East
Meanwhile elsewhere
- Confucianism Asia
- Buddhist philosophy Asia
- Mohism Asia
- Taoism Asia
- Legalism Asia
- Nyaya Asia
- Patristics Africa
- Madhyamaka Asia