This book challenged the Aristotelian ideas which the church recognised as fact.
Averroes attempted to create harmony between faith and philosophy, between Aristotelian ideas and Islam.
In elaborating this approach, MacIntyre understands himself to be reworking the Aristotelian idea of an ethical teleology.
The term is ultimately derived from Aristotelian and Roman legal ideas about the use of reason in persons and the status of minority before the law.
Avicenna carried forward into the middle ages the Aristotelian idea of generation and corruption being limited to the sublunary sphere.
The movie revolves around the Aristotelian idea that character is destiny.
In general terms, Bacon and Hobbes accept the Aristotelian idea that scientific understanding involves knowledge of causes.
A common belief in Europe during this period was the Aristotelian idea that the world beyond the Moon and planets was immutable.
Ideas of well-being as a good life stem from Aristotelian ideas of eudaimonia.
Meanwhile, philosophy, including what was called "physics", focused on explanatory (rather than descriptive) schemes, largely developed around the Aristotelian idea of the four types of "causes".