Peripatetic school

The School of Aristotleby Gustav Adolph Spangenberg.

The peripatetic school was a philosophical circle of ancient Greece. It followed the teachings of Aristotle, its founder. His followers were called peripatetics (περιπατητικοί).

It received this name because it is located next to the temple dedicated to Apollo Lycio, which had a garden through which, according to tradition, the master walked with his disciples, reflecting on life. In Greek peripatêín means to go around, for this reason the followers of Aristotle were also called peripatetics, and the Peripatos school. After Aristotle's death, the school became more concerned with naturalistic and scientific investigations than with strictly philosophical questions.

History

Aristotle founded the Peripatetic school in 335 B.C. C. when he opened his first philosophical school at the Lyceum, also founded by him in Athens. The name of the school comes from the Greek word for 'ambulatory' or 'itinerant'. This may come from either the covered portals of the Lyceum known as perípatoi , or from the raised bowers under which Aristotle walked while he read.

Members of the peripatetic school include:

• Teofrasto
• Aristóxeno
• Satiro
• Eudemo de Rodas
• Tiny Straton
• Andronic Rhodes

Culture and media

In the Spanish series Merlí, the group of high school students takes as their name "Los peripatéticos del siglo XXI" from the beginning of the series, in reference to this school.