Most Famous Peripatetic School Philosophers

The Peripatetic school was the philosophical school founded by Aristotle in 335 BC at the Lyceum in Athens. The name derives from the colonnaded walks of the Lyceum where members are said to have walked while discussing. The school continued Aristotle's empirical and systematic method across logic, biology, ethics, and metaphysics. Major figures after Aristotle included Theophrastus and Strato of Lampsacus. The school's texts and methods exerted lasting influence on medieval scholasticism through Arabic and Latin translators.

Philosophers in this tradition

Aristotle 384 BC – 322 BC · Greek
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath born in Stagira in 384 BC. A student of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great, he founded the Peripatetic school at the Lyceum in...
Theophrastus c. 371 BC – c. 287 BC · Greek
Theophrastus of Eresus was an ancient Greek philosopher and the immediate successor of Aristotle as head of the Peripatetic School at the Lyceum in Athens. He directed the schoo...
Strato of Lampsacus c. 335 BC – c. 269 BC · Greek
Strato of Lampsacus was an ancient Greek philosopher and the third head of the Peripatetic School at the Lyceum in Athens, succeeding Theophrastus in 287 BC. Known in antiquity ...