Stagirite
See also: stagirite
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From the Latin Stagirites, from the Ancient Greek Σταγιριτης (Stagiritēs, “natives of Stagira”), from Σταγειρος (Stageiros, “Stagira”).
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Stagirite (plural Stagirites)
- Someone from Stagira.
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Stagirite
- Aristotle.
- 2000 June, Nicholas Rescher, “Optimalism and Axiological Metaphysics”, in The Review of Metaphysics, LIII, № 4, § ii, page 812:
- It was thus a sound insight into the thought framework of the great Stagirite that led the anti-Aristotelian writers of the Renaissance, and later preeminently Descartes and Spinoza, to attack the Platonic/Aristotelian conception of the embodiment of value in nature and the modern logical positivist opponents of metaphysics to attach the stigma of illegitimacy to all evaluative disciplines.