ABSTRACT
In the foregoing chapters the focus has been on the Peripatetics with a view to considering them as a self-contained tradition. While our narrow perspective assisted us in teasing out the doctrinal positions internal to the school, it largely ignored their relationship with the intellectual environment of the day. It would, however, be foolish to pretend that they existed in an intellectual ‘vacuum’, which is why this chapter aims to counter-balance such a myopic perspective by considering the interaction between Peripatetics and thinkers from other schools of thought. After all, ‘No philosophical school is an island’.1
