peripateticism

Etymology

From peripatetic + -ism. Compare French péripatétisme.

peripateticism means The doctrines or philosophical system of the peripatetics Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

PERIPATETICISM — [Noun] The doctrines and philosophical tradition of Aristotle's school, the Peripatetics. From peripatetic (from Latin peripatēticus, from Greek peripatētikos, "given to walking about," from peripatein, "to walk about") + the suffix -ism, denoting a system or doctrine. Unlike Aristotelianism, which denotes the philosopher's own corpus, or Scholasticism, which encases his logic in medieval theology, Peripateticism is the living, ambulatory institution—the intellectual culture of debate conducted in motion. It is the dust stirred from the colonnade path by sandaled feet, the unspooling of an argument paced to the rhythm of footsteps, and the dispersal of disciples like seeds from a sower's hand—a quiet insistence that wisdom must keep walking to stay alive.

noun

The doctrines or philosophical system of the peripatetics“[…] it should be remembered that their poets and rabbis of the middle ages were contemporary with the Scotists and Thomists, with the pseudo-platonism and peripateticism of Christendom.”