Aristotelian philosophy
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Stafford Hopkins, the protagonist of Patricia Flynn’s debut novel, has made the climb from a rural Canadian childhood to the peak of Hollywood success, thanks in part to his love of Aristotelian philosophy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
In the “Summa Theologica,” his grand synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy and Christian teaching, he defended the doctrine of Hell and insisted that we should think of it as a benefit, not a bug.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019
One of the most striking sources in the collection is Mill's boyhood copy of Franco Burgersdijk's Institutionum Logicarum, a work of Aristotelian philosophy used as a textbook by university students well into the 18th Century.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2018
When Dion Mattison, 37, of Crown Heights, is not teaching Aristotelian philosophy at the New School in Manhattan, he operates the Conatus Surf Club in Rockaway, extolling proper technique to clients.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2018
Regiomontanus spoke in praise of the mathematical sciences, and he praised them by denigrating the Aristotelian philosophy taught in the universities.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
