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{{Short description|Tradition in philosophy}}
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'''Aristotelianism''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|ær|ɪ|s|t|ə|ˈ|t|iː|l|i|ə|n|ɪ|z|əm}} {{respell|ARR|i|stə|TEE|lee|ə|niz|əm}}) is a philosophical tradition inspired by the work of [[Aristotle]], usually characterized by [[Prior Analytics|deductive logic]] and an [[posterior analytics|analytic inductive method]] in the study of nature and [[Natural_law#Aristotle|natural law]]. It answers why-questions by a scheme of [[four causes]], including purpose or [[telos|teleology]], and emphasizes [[virtue ethics]]. Aristotle and his school wrote tractates on [[Physics (Aristotle)|physics]], [[biology]], [[metaphysics]], [[logic]], [[ethics]], [[aesthetics]], [[poetry]], [[theatre]], [[music]], [[rhetoric]], [[psychology]], [[linguistics]], [[economics]], [[politics]], and [[government]]. Any school of thought that takes one of Aristotle's distinctive positions as its starting point can be considered "Aristotelian" in the widest sense. This means that different Aristotelian theories (e.g. in ethics or in [[ontology]]) may not have much in common as far as their actual content is concerned besides their shared reference to Aristotle.
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