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the Peripatetics
also: Peripatetici, Peripateticos, Peripateticorum, the Peripatetics
The school founded by Aristotle, named for the practice of debating while walking about (peripatein) in the Lyceum. Cicero treats it as one of the two names of a single philosophy issuing from Plato, sharing its substance with the Old Academy.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §3.22 the Peripatetics, our intimate friends
The school of Aristotle and Theophrastus, congenial to Cicero's Academic outlook. He nonetheless rejects their doctrine of metriopatheia (moderate, not zero, passions) in favour of the sterner Stoic position that the wise man has no passions at all.
- Tusculan Disputations §3.76 as the Peripatetics
The school of Aristotle, here said to console by showing that the loss is no great evil (their doctrine of moderate emotion). Cicero lists the consolation-strategies of each school in turn.