The followers of Aristotle
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Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The Peripatetic tradition, named collectively as sharing Aristotle's position on the acquisition of character.
Arisṭū and those who followed him held that this endures so long as one keeps to the use of the means, which are the virtues confined between the extremes.
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The Aristotelian school, named as holding with its founder that the soul uses the body as an instrument, survives its death and neither pre-exists it nor transmigrates.
But Arisṭūṭālīs and his followers and the whole body of the Christians claimed that the soul is neither a body nor an accident;