acadamic

& s. [In Fr. académique; Sp. and Ital. accademico; Lat. academic us.] [ACADEMY.] I. As adjective: 1. Pertaining to the Academical School of Philosophy. lost himself in the mazes of the old Academic philosophy "-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xxi. The Academic Philosophy was that taught by Plato in the "Academy" at Athens. [ACADEMY.] It was idealist as opposed to realist, materialist, or sensationist. Plato believed in an intelligent First Cause, the author of spiritual being and of the material world, to whom he ascribed every perfection. greatly commended virtue, and held the preexistence and the immortality of the immaterial part of our nature. No ancient philosophy so readily blended with Christianity as that of Plato. He IMG:content-0065.png:[blocks in formation] acaciæ acalephan "A young academic shall dwell upon a journal that treats of trade."- Watts : Impr . of the Mind.