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Stagirite
Stag′i-rite
(stăj′ĭ-rīt)
, Noun.
A native of, or resident in, Stagira, in ancient Macedonia; especially, Aristotle.
[Written also
Stagyrite
.] Definition 2024
Stagirite
Stagirite
See also: stagirite
English
Alternative forms
- Stagyrite
Noun
Stagirite (plural Stagirites)
- Someone from Stagira.
Translations
someone from Stagira
Proper noun
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.
- 2000 June, Nicholas Rescher, “Optimalism and Axiological Metaphysics” in The Review of Metaphysics LIII, № 4, § ii, page 812:
Translations
Aristotle the Stagirite