Meanings
alternative Stagyrite
- Aristotle.
1 more example
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
Origin
- Ancient GreekΣταγιριτης“natives of Stagira”
- LatinStagirites
- EnglishStagirite
From the Latin Stagirites, from the Ancient Greek Σταγιριτης (Stagiritēs, “natives of Stagira”), from Σταγειρος (Stageiros, “Stagira”).
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Polish Stagiryta, Stagiryta
- Stagirytasomeone from Stagira
- StagirytaAristotle the Stagirite
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Stagirite. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Stagirite
“Stagirite.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Stagirite. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Stagirite,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Stagirite.
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