Peripatetic Philosophy, a designation of the philosophy of Aristotle (q.v.) and of his followers. It is of doubtful origin, being supposed to have been derived either from his custom of occasionally walking about (peripatein) during the delivery of his lectures, or from the place in which they were delivered being a shaded walk.
Peripatetic Philosophy
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 55
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