α. 1900s– neo-Aristotelean, 1900s– neo-Aristotelian.
β. 1900s– neo-Aristotlean.
neo-Aristotelianadj.n.
/ˌniːəʊˌarᵻstəˈtiːlɪən/, U.S. /ˈˌnioʊəˌrɪstəˈtil(i)j(ə)n/, /ˈˌnioʊˌɛrəstəˈtil(i)j(ə)n/ A. adj.
Of, designating, or relating to a new or modern form of, or a revival of, Aristotelianism.
ΚΠ
1905 Mind 14 286 Bernies..urges the expulsion of intellectus agens from Neo-aristotelian philosophy.
1923 Jrnl. Philos. 20 221 It is a sincere and successful attempt to render the main principles of neo-Aristotelean evolutionary ethics precise, systematic, and rigorous.
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 July 561/1 The attempt to apply the neo-Aristotlean [sic] rules was..doomed to failure.
1953 R. S. Crane Langs. of Criticism 149 It is not a question of..looking upon ourselves, in any exclusive sense, as forming an ‘Aristotelian’ or ‘Neo-Aristotelian’ school.
1963 P. Merlan (title) Monopsychism, mysticism, metaconsciousness. Problems of the soul in the Neoaristotelian and Neoplatonic tradition.
1997 Renaissance Q. 50 875/1 Rhu discusses Tasso's relationship to the neo-Aristotelian critics and commentators of the sixteenth century.
B. n.
A proponent or supporter of neo-Aristotelianism.
ΚΠ
1945 K. Burke Let. 13 Oct. in Sel. Corr. K. Burke & M. Cowley (1988) 270 The semi-tiff with the Chicago Neo-Aristotelians.
1947 College Eng. 8 403 We should not leave the new critics without notice of the neo-Aristotelians who do not accept fellowship with the new critics, nor with the neo-Thomists.
1962 W. S. Scott Five Approaches of Lit. Crit. 183 He also arraigns the ‘Neo-Aristotelians’ for going outside the poem—not to history, psychology, or morality, but to a theory of the genre.
1992 Mind 101 50 It is not clear whether any further principles, within the completely general theory of constitution, should be laid down, either by Aristotle or by the neo-Aristotelian.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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