Stagirite

See also: stagirite

English

From the Latin Stagirites, from the Ancient Greek Σταγιριτης (Stagiritēs, “natives of Stagira”), from Σταγειρος (Stageiros, “Stagira”).

Stagirite (plural Stagirites)

someone from Stagira

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.

Aristotle the Stagirite