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Lets Take A Walk: To Discuss Peripatetics

  Walking is one of the best exercises for our minds in many philosopher' opinions some have only claimed that they can think while on the move as exemplified by Jean- Jacques Rousseau. “My mind only works with my legs.” This is just one example of what make us able to think better while we walk. Walking has many benefits to us as a society tho such as boosting our mood and creativity. Walking also will provide mental clarity while also awakening you to your surroundings in the world around you. If for none of the other Reasons it will simply make you a more healthy person to simply get up and move around. 

  Others During time have also come to realize this such as Charles Darwin who was such a believer in this he created 1.5 acre strip of lad to be bordered by a gravel walking path made specifically just to walk and let ones mind flow. This is where he would draw the ideas for his writings.

    

  As also noted in the article Gymnasiums of the mind it has become apparent in some aspects that the Darwins', Einsteins, Freuds', James' ect have tapered off greatly since automobiles have become in greater use. A possible cause of this would be that the decline in walking also demonstrates a similar rate of decay of the "genuineness" from the 20th century and even before then. Mark Twain would likely agree with this statement since he had stated that "walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active." 

  There have been Parenthetic schools all over the world in different cultures. some modded after the Lyceum even, One example is the previously mentioned was Darwin's Sand Walk. Another and the one that started this school of thought was the Lyceum in Athens.  Peripatetic ideas even became part of Islamic philosophy during the ninth through twelfth centuries.

  Before it spread to Islam it began in Greece where it had already started but Aristotle Gave it the spark the movement needed to become an actual school of thought, this was the Lyceum in Athens Greece.

  Aristotle was a student of Plato until his death then he served on the court of Alexander the great until 335 B.C. when he moved on to found his own school of thought which was the Lyceum. He was the Head of this school until he left Athens in 323 B.C.  When anti Macedonians sought him out he stated “I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy” he said, with reference to the execution of Socrates. This is where he left the school to die a year later in 322 B.C.